There has been a lot of speculation surrounding what the changes will be in the relationship between the UK and the European Union as a result of the Brexit referendum. One thing we do know, is that according to a senior MEP, English will no longer be an official language of the European Union.
Danuta Hubner, the head of the European Parliament’s Constitutional Afairs Committee (AFCO), warned Monday that English will not be one of the European Union’s official languages after Britain leaves the EU. As Politico reports, English is one of the EU’s 24 official languages because the UK identified it as its own official language, Hubner said. But as soon as Britain completes the process to leave the EU, English could lose its status.
“We have regulation, where every EU country has the right to notify one official language. The Irish have notified Gaelic, and the Maltese have notified Maltese, so you have only the UK notifying English. If we don’t have the UK, we don’t have English.” said Hubner.
As we reported, during a Tuesday speech to EU lawmakers European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker didn’t speak any English, instead making the speech only in French and German. The games started much earlier than Tuesday however. According to the WSJ, last Friday and over the weekend, Juncker gave statements and interviews only to German media, a decision that officials said was deliberate. Then on Monday during the commission’s daily media briefing, chief spokesman Margaritis Schinas made his opening statement at in French only, rather than the usual French and English.
Several members of the European Parliament are worried that Juncker’s decision not to speak English might send the wrong message, not only to British people.
From the WSJ
“It’s as provocative as some of the arguments of the Leave campaign. Now we should react with openness and generosity,” said Sorin Moisa, a center-left lawmaker from Romania.
“It’s like children in the playground,” said Cecilia Wikström, a centrist MEP from Sweden. “Brexit is to me so dramatic, so huge…that we shouldn’t react in this symbolic way.”
Ms. Wikström said that keeping English now could actually make communications in the EU a bit fairer, since most of those speaking it would be using a foreign language.
“I was always frustrated that native speakers had such a huge advantage,” she said.
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We suspect that these childish games will continue from the elites who are lashing out in any way possible after being defeated.
Might we suggest that Juncker has a glass of wine and relaxes a bit, perhaps a little less slapping however.
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