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I’m Dutch and I would be completely down for making English the sole official language of the EU. 90% of the reason we haven’t already is the French and their p
by jorvi 8y ago
I’m Dutch and I would be completely down for making English the sole official language of the EU. 90% of the reason we haven’t already is the French and their pride. They even want to completely switch back to French as the main EU language when Brexit is fully done.. I mean, come on! As if the the whole two-week circus of moving the entire parliament to Strasbourg and then back to Brussels isn’t enough of a travesty of inefficiency to pay for their pride.
- beojan 8y agoI don't think it would go down very well with Spain, and perhaps Italy, either.
- cornholio 8y agoIt's not a politically acceptable solution, but it's certainly a solution. And it's not acceptable for purely nationalistic and self serving reasons of the politicians. There is absolutely no technical reason the EU bureaucracy cannot function in a single language. Now that UK leaves, there's not even the problem of a unfair language advantage except maybe to some degree for Malta. It would massively simplify and reduce the cost of the EU. It will also never happen, precisely for that reason.