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Goodby to Spanish Place Names in the Balearic Islands

Summary by Euro Weekly News
The Ministry of the Presidency, Justice, and Parliamentary Relations has ordered all courts and tribunals in the Balearic Islands to use the official Catalan-language names of their headquarters in court orders, rulings, and judgments, regardless of the language in which they are written. Moving forward, for example, the place names of Palma, Eivissa, and Maó will be used… Source

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The decision by the Ministry of Justice, led by Félix Bolaños, to impose Catalan place names such as Palma, Eivissa, and Maó in the Balearic Islands' courts, banishing the historic names of Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, and Mahón, is a new chapter in the saga of ideological absurdities that divide rather than unite. This measure, far from being an exercise in linguistic justice, is an attack on the islands' bilingual identity and an example of how s…

Let's do it in Catalan forces the Ministry of Justice to order that only the official names in the native language of places like Palma, Ibiza and Maó are used The Ministry of the Presidency, Justice and Relations with the Cortes has ordered all the courts and tribunals of the Balearic Islands to use the official toponyms in Catalan of their headquarters. In this way, in any act, provision or sentence that is drafted, regardless of the language …

Minister Félix Bolaños has ordered that official names in Catalan be used in orders, orders and sentences.

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Libertad Digital broke the news in on Wednesday, August 6, 2025.
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