The president of the OCB, Antoni Llabrés, has sent a letter to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz asking his government to support the declaration of official status and "not frustrate the expectations of millions of speakers who refuse to resign themselves to being second-class Europeans." Taking advantage of Merz's recent visit to Mallorca, Llabrés sent him a letter outlining the reasons why Catalan should be recognized as an official language in the European Union.

As a child, he played with his cousin with the plastic soldiers from Fort Comanche. He pretended to be John Wayne in Desert Centaurs oh The diligence. We're talking about the jurist Antoni Llabrés, a professor of Criminal Law at the UIB and president of the Obra Cultural Balear since 2024. And we hear about it from his cousin, the architect Pep Martínez (incidentally, brother of the current mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez). Toni and Pep were born in 1968. They had a very close relationship until they were 18 years old, and they are still very close today.