Catalan minister of education at LSE

In questions, [Paul] Preston forced [Ernest Maragall] to to return to [the language issue], and Maragall replied that there is no language problem in Catalonia, that all the controversy arose from manipulations, sponsored by Spanish parties on the right (he did not clarify whether [principal vice-president in the national PSOE government] Fernández de la Vega belonged to one of these parties), and ended with the blunt assertion that the [new education] law will show that there is no language problem, a statement that left me most intrigued: I am not an expert in the philosophy of law but I would say that the virtues of laws do not include the verification or disproval of facts.

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