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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
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Organization: Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
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Date: Sat, 4 Feb 1995 21:12:27 GMT
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alan@dragon.acadiau.ca (Alan McKay) skribis en lastatempa afisxo <1995Feb3.132728.13332@relay.acadiau.ca>:
>
>As I've stated in a previous post, France is the only country that put
>a poo-poo on using English as the only official language in the EU.
>This is a documented fact.  Both Spain and Italy were willing to accept
>it.  NOw they are stuck with a linguistic beauraucracy second only to
>the UN.
>
Could you provide a reference for this documented fact? I had never 
before heard of it! As a matter of fact, I had never heard of the 
question of a single official language being seriously discussed 
(in the sense of, with the intent of implementing one) at the EU/EEC -- 
such a change in policy would be in direct violation of the Treaty of 
Rome, on which the whole organization is based.

You are maligning the EU's linguistic bureaucracy by saying that 
they are second only to the UN. They are second to no one!


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