{"id":8071,"date":"2012-11-27T12:04:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T11:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/11\/20121127_paritalinguistica-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T20:10:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T18:10:27","slug":"20121127_paritalinguistica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/comunicati\/2012\/11\/20121127_paritalinguistica\/","title":{"rendered":"EU: Minister Terzi welcomes Court of Justice judgment on language equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>\u201cA judgment that Italy welcomes most warmly\u201d. This was Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi\u2019s comment on hearing of the ruling published today by the European Union\u2019s Court of Justice. The judgment establishes that the publication in just three languages (English, French and German) of the Union\u2019s open competitions for the recruitment of administrators and assistants, and the obligation to hold selection tests in one of those three languages, constitutes \u201cdiscrimination\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cThis ruling is of fundamental importance as it demonstrates that Italy\u2019s determination in defending the principle of non-discrimination in language matters within the European Union is not just a nationalistic position. Rather, as we have always maintained, it is a substantive factor for the union\u2019s very <I>raison d&#8217;\u00eatre<\/I> and its institutional legitimacy\u201d. It was with this conviction that Minister Terzi has campaigned so strongly in recent weeks to ensure that all the proceedings of the EU Council Working Groups have full interpreting support for Italian. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cThe European Union\u201d, declared Minister Terzi, \u201ccannot be likened to any other international organisation. <A name=_GoBack><\/A>It represents a level of shared government by the 27 member states, and its legislative provisions have direct effects on half a billion people\u201d. <\/P><br \/>\n<P>\u201cAt a time when the European Union is engaged in reiterating evermore strongly, and from a new perspective, the roots of its legitimacy, the issue of equal linguistic dignity is of utter and central importance. And this judgment\u201d, concluded Terzi, \u201cis a major recognition of the line that Italy has always upheld, with full support from all our parliamentary forces\u201d.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cA judgment that Italy welcomes most warmly\u201d. This was Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi\u2019s comment on hearing of the ruling published today by the European Union\u2019s Court of Justice. The judgment establishes that the publication in just three languages (English, French and German) of the Union\u2019s open competitions for the recruitment of administrators and assistants, and [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,42],"class_list":["post-8071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comunicati","tag-ministri-precedenti","tag-unione-europea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134252,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8071\/revisions\/134252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}