The European Commission this Thursday avoided ruling on the new education law in Spain, known as the Celaá Law, by pointing out that education is the exclusive competence of each EU member state.
Faced with the complaint from the concerted sector, the Commission’s Education spokesperson, Sonya Gospodinova, recalled that the competences in education correspond to each member state, which “can organize its educational system”, therefore the European Government “lacks legal powers” in this matter.
Nevertheless, Brussels has underlined that it defends the right of parents to have their children receive an education in line with their “beliefs and convictions”, but recalled that the European Charter of Fundamental Rights imposes obligations on member states only in matters of community competence.
Although the spokeswoman has assured that The Commission follows “closely the situation in Spain and the Government’s intention to replace concerted schools with educational places in public schools», Has reiterated that Brussels« has no basis to pronounce on the Executive’s plans ».
Unions, family associations, companies and different educational organizations in the concerted sector on Wednesday registered a letter alerting Brussels that the new educational law “puts at serious risk of violation of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms recognized in the Treaty on the Functioning of the Union European ‘.
According to the group’s criticism, the reform violates, firstly, the Freedom of Education established in the Spanish Constitution by converting concerted education, in their opinion, into a “subsidiary” of the public one; it jeopardizes the European Charter of Freedom Rights by “limiting”, in his opinion, “the possibility of opening new centers with their own ideology and with it pluralism in the educational system”; and it limits the right of parents to choose the education they want for their children.
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