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.