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Not going to happen without an agreed single working language, which can't realistically be anything other than English, and that'll be unacceptable, so the ide

• wat1771 9mo ago
  De facto it's English currently even if they don't want to admit it
  • maxldn 9mo ago
    I kind of assumed brexit would make people give up pretending, but that doesn’t seem to have happened
    • direwolf20 9mo ago
      English is the most widely spoken language. It is the language you are most likely to have in common with a random European citizen — in the same way Chinese is the language you are most likely to have in common with a random Earthling. This doesn't mean if you do something in English (Chinese) the whole continent (planet) will understand it. It is very useful to know. Especially if you talk to someone who travels internationally a lot, some rich businessman or non–local politician, they surely speak English too.
      • Anonyneko 9mo ago
        >in the same way Chinese is the language you are most likely to have in common with a random Earthling It's still going to be English, although not by a huge margin if you include non-Mandarin Chinese.
• direwolf20 9mo ago
  The EU itself (not the countries) does every communication in every EU country language. I think it's the second largest employer of translators in the world, behind only the UN. For a business, the language is whatever you agree with your customers. You are free to choose. If you communicate with the EU itself, any EU country language is accepted. Language diversity is just a fact of life in Europe and not going away soon, that's like asking the US to give up the idea of states and become a single country.