Language conflicts in the European Union On finding a politically acceptable and practicable solution for EU institutions that satisfies diverging interests
@article{Ammon2006LanguageCI, title={Language conflicts in the European Union On finding a politically acceptable and practicable solution for EU institutions that satisfies diverging interests}, author={Ulrich Ammon}, journal={International Journal of Applied Linguistics}, year={2006}, volume={16}, pages={319-338} }
For EU institutions, having a single internal working language – for which English is the only candidate – would be the most efficient solution and, to all appearances, in the best interests of each member state and language community whose language is excluded as a working language. However, for member states from the large non-anglophone language communities, such a solution seems barely acceptable and, in addition, would not correspond to the EU's official language policy on the preservation…
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