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From: donh@netcom.com (Don HARLOW)
Subject: Re: Languages in the EC
Message-ID: <donhD3IFtz.9rs@netcom.com>
Organization: Esperanto League for North America, Inc.
References: <3fdf8r$gqe@nic.lth.se> <1995Feb3.132728.13332@relay.acadiau.ca> <donhD3Huwr.M3r@netcom.com> <791944949snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 04:44:22 GMT
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philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk skribis en lastatempa afisxo <791944949snz@storcomp.demon.co.uk>:
>In article <donhD3Huwr.M3r@netcom.com> donh@netcom.com "Don HARLOW" writes:
>> 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.
>
>The Treaty of Rome is not cast in stone. The EU is modified from time
>to time. Eg qualified majority voting, Maastricht, etc.
>
Which, of course, is an interesting point, but does not respond to 
my question.

(Qualified majority voting, Maastricht, etc., _add_ to the provisions 
of the Treaty of Rome -- but have any of them so far been _changed_? 
Not a comment disguised as a question -- I don't know.)


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