EU multilingualism strategy to focus on language learning

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


EurActiv.com



EU multilingualism strategy to focus on language learning



Encouraging European citizens to learn two foreign languages should be
the basis of the EU's new multilingualism strategy due in September,
concluded a ministerial conference last Friday (15 February). The
conference was set up to "identify areas where further action on
languages is needed at both national and EU levels" and aimed to
define common actions to be taken over the next three to five years.
The Commission expects to use the results of the conference as "the
basis for its Communication to the Parliament and the Council
proposing a comprehensive language policy to be published during
2008."



Full story:

http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/eu-multilingualism-strategy-focus-language-learning/article-170364


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