Coinciding with the International Day of the Basque Country, the Euskara declaration and the Basque culture have been presented as the axis of the future. When the CAV is debating the Education Act in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, 211 experts, professionals and creators of the world of education, culture and the Basque Country have asked the institutions to specify what the transmission route of the Basque Country will be in regulated and non-regulated education.

The writing has been read by writer Leire Vargas and by literature professor Iratxe Retolaza in Bilbao, but it is followed by strong support. From Saturday, moreover, anyone can accede to the declaration on the Council’s website. The document states that Basque culture is an ecosystem and that all its agents should be fed so that all citizens have the right to know Basque and Basque culture. Therefore, the educational system also has a responsibility and demands that the law act decisively in favor of the Basque country.

Basque, standard language

According to the statement, in particular, education must ensure that all students reach an "adequate" Basque level at the end of compulsory education, regardless of their place of residence, origin or socioeconomic situation, among others. In fact, when Euskera is a minority language, the signatories consider that the law should not equate Euskera to Spanish: "The Basque language must be the standard language of the educational system." In this way, the basis should be to give more to those with less Basque, adapting to reality. They demand a generalized and inclusive model in which the Basque language is a vehicular and vehicular language.

Basque culture

On the other hand, they stress the importance of culture, since "language cannot be understood as biased culture", and the law also has a role in it: They demand "a Basque curriculum centered on Basque culture". For the educational system to ensure the transmission of culture, two lines of work have been defined: on the one hand, the history of culture in Euskera and the knowledge of the present; and on the other hand, to convey the passion for creation in Euskera by providing models.

Likewise, the declaration presented in Bilbao reflects the need to place Basque culture in a reality: to convey the form that culture takes in the seven territories that are the people of Euskera.

The Basque Government published the first draft of the Education Act in September and has since generated debates and protests. According to the attached report by Mikel García, the hottest points are advertising and the weight of Euskera in teaching.