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EU officials lining up to learn German
News Article 15 May 2006
Learning German is on the increase among top Brussels officials as a new
Berlin government returns centre of the EU political stage.
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Commission top brass learn German
Press Review 15 May 2006
Interest in German as a foreign language is on the increase in the highest
circles of the European commission, writes FT Deutschland.
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MEPs reject use of co-official languages
Press Review 27 April 2006
The European parliament decided on Wednesday not to allow the Spanish
co-official languages Catalan, Valencian and Basque to be used in official
EU publications despite Spanish government pressure for the move.
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Jan Figel'
Interview 21 April 2006
Jan Figel' is European commissioner responsible for education, training,
culture and multilingualism.
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EU languages: A ticket for mobility
News Article 21 April 2006
Learning languages is just the ticket for greater mobility for Europes
citizens, argues Manolis Mavommatis MEP.
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Multilingualism necessary for the EU
News Article 21 April 2006
EU must promote multilingualism as it means opportunities for individuals
and companies, says Mara Badia MEP.
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EU watchdog defends German language rights
News Article 30 March 2006
EU presidency websites should be published in more languages than French
and English, the European citizens watchdog has ruled.
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Germany welcomes EU-wide language test
Press Review 24 February 2006
The German government has welcomed plans by the European commission to
introduce an EU-wide test on foreign languages for high school students,
Die Welt reports.
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Luxemburgers top EU language poll
Press Review 22 February 2006
Luxemburgers are the best EU linguists with 99 per cent speaking more than
one language, while Slovaks, Lithuanians, Latvians, Maltese, Dutch,
Slovenians and Swedes scored 90 per cent.

English is EU's most European language
News Article 21 February 2006
English is Europes most widely used language and spoken by more than half
of European citizens, including those in EU hopefuls Bulgaria, Romania,
Croatia and Turkey.
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Figel wants EU-wide language tests
Press Review 23 November 2005
Jan Figel, culture commissioner, has proposed common EU language tests for
15 year olds, it was announced on Tuesday.
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EU calls for action on languages
News Article 22 November 2005
The European Commission committed itself to greater investment in language
research on Tuesday.
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EU to talk the talk
News Article 5 October 2005
2008 will be the European year of intercultural dialogue, the European
Commission has proposed.
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French language slides to third place
Press Review 27 September 2005
Over half of EU citizens speak English according to a new Eurobarometer
study.
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Russian rises in EU language league
News Article 23 September 2005
Russian, tied with Spanish, is the EUs fifth most commonly spoken second
language, finds an official European Commission survey.
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Translation for all EU
News Article 20 July 2005
In a bid to better communicate the EU to its citizens, the European
Commission is doubling its resources to translating its websites into all
official EU languages.
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Language capacity stretched
Press Review 5 July 2005
Gazeta Wyborcza discusses whether Brussels can cope with bringing in the
three new official languages of Irish, Basque and Catalonian, while
Luxemburgish is being mooted as a fourth.
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Four new languages join EU tower of babel
Press Review 14 June 2005
Irish is set to become the 21st official language of the EU, yielding some
30 new translators' jobs in Brussels at a cost of  3.5 million a year, PAP
notes.
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Language spat continues
Press Review 3 March 2005
Spain, Italy and Portugal are boycotting one item of discussion from the
agenda of the Council of Ministers for Employment (which takes place
today), on the basis that there were no translations of the background
papers available in other languages than English, French and German

Spain joins EU language wars
Press Review 24 February 2005
The Spanish government on Wednesday sent a letter to European Commission
President Jos Manuel Barrosso saying it is opposed to his intention to
remove Spanish as one of the official languages used in press conferences.
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MEP demands Italian language rights from EU
News Article 23 February 2005
STRASBOURG: A senior MEP has called for a boycott of meetings in the
European Parliament where there is no Italian language translation.
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MEP protests Latvia language laws
News Article 21 July 2004
STRASBOURG: Latvian language laws have sparked protests among pupils,
teachers and an MEP from the countrys Russian minorities.
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Irish plead for EU gift of the gab
News Article 21 July 2004
STRASBOURG: Bertie Ahern has used a valedictory speech on his Irish EU
presidency to push for Gaelic to become the 21st official language of the
European bloc.
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Irish bid to join EU 'Tower of Babel'
News Article 15 July 2004
Dublin is pushing for Irish to become an official language of the EU  a
move that would bring to 21 the number of Brussels approved tongues.