What language might substitute English within the European Union? | EUROtoday

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L'European Union formally acknowledges 24 languages ​​however solely three working languages ​​inside the establishments: English, French and German. In reality, English dominates outrageously and much more so since 2019 when Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the Commission, selected as chief of workers, Bjoern Seibert, a German who doesn’t converse French. From then on, the Commission's working paperwork switched to English… In complete, 70% of the working paperwork are solely readable on this language. An sudden post-Brexit triumph for London!

However, voices are being raised to query the upkeep of English as a working language. Indeed, on this post-Brexit EU, English is the mom tongue of just one.3% of the inhabitants…


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