Some local writers have issued a manifesto in Catalan saying that neither language should have supremacy.
Even the small Pyrenean nation, which used to insist on performing in Catalan, has plumped for a Euro-friendly disco tune in English this year.
As part of a new law to promote Catalan instead of Castilian Spanish, Mr Pujol has been trying to make cinemas show at least a quarter of their films in Catalan.
Sunday's elections will open another chapter in Catalan-Spanish relations.
His Barcelona triumph, making it 39 straight wins in the Catalan capital, has been added to titles in Sao Paulo, Acapulco and the hard courts at Indian Wells.
Anna Romaguera, 29, is a psychiatrist in the Catalan town of Granollers.
Quim Monzo is the best-selling author in the Catalan language.
Jordi Pujol is a towering figure in modern Catalan politics.
There the Basque government is heavily promoting Euskera, the Basque tongue, which is less widely spoken in the region than Catalan is in Catalonia (and is harder for Spanish-speakers to learn).
Elsewhere in the debate, the situation of Catalan speakers in Spain and Russian speakers in Latvia was raised.
State education was to be conducted in both languages and the use of Catalan made compulsory in regional-and local-government offices.
In 2006 a Catalan referendum backed by the central government gave the region greater autonomy.
He too drifts between French and Catalan in his conversation.
The centre-right opposition People's Party, which challenged the Catalan charter in court, has long felt so.
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For locals, though, there was a more pressing question: what would be the next phase in the evolution of Catalan cuisine?
Over sharp opposition from the conservative Spanish government in Madrid, the Catalan parliament voted 85-41 for the declaration, with two abstentions.
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He has also been cosying up to a small conservative Catalan party in coalition with Mr Pujol's lot in the regional parliament.
Next year she will undertake research work at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology, a public corporation of the Catalan government in Spain.
The answer, thinks Mr Pujol, is plain: when topics affecting Catalonia are at issue in Brussels, let Catalan spokesmen be there, as such, albeit within the Spanish delegation.
Yet by the time Adria was 24 he was the head chef at El Bulli on the Catalan coast in northeastern Spain, at that time a struggling restaurant in danger of losing its Michelin-star rating.
About 95% of people in Catalonia, including most of the large minority who are not of Catalan descent, can get along in it.
Inevitably, it was Barcelona's Lionel Messi who was center stage, scoring two first-half penalties -- his 50th and 51st in the competition -- that set the Catalan club on their way following the 0-0 draw in Italy last week.
They will travel to the team that finishes sixth, either Leeds or Catalan Dragons, in week one of the play-offs next Sunday.
Furthermore, the population is by no means exclusively Catalan, especially in Barcelona.
Midfielder Sergio Gonzalez, without a club since being released by Levante in 2011, gave the Catalan team the lead from the penalty spot after three minutes.
While Real have been off the pace in the Spanish league this season -- Jose Mourinho's side are 12 points behind Barca -- the Madrid club beat their Catalan rivals recently in the Spanish Cup semifinals.
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As well as the incendiary media conferences, Mourinho has occasionally overstepped the mark -- no more so than in his 2011 altercation with the now Barcelona manager Tito Vilanova, when the Portuguese coach poked his opponent in the eye when the Catalan was Pep Guardiola's assistant.
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