European Parliament 25 January 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-0064/02 by Camilo Nogueira Román (Verts/ALE) to the Council. The Spanish presidency's position on relations with Mercosur, and Argentina in particular.

It would be absurd if the EU, which must play a fundamental political and economic role in the world, should underestimate the value of these two languages as preferred working languages, when, out of all the languages which are or are going to be the official languages of the EU, they are among the three most spoken languages in the world.