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> Europe really needs to fix the funding issue and language fragmentation.

Indeed: German is the most common first language of the EU, and French is the second-most common first language of the EU. [1] Let's from now on decide that all EU citizens have to speak one of these two languages. Language fragmentation problem solved. :-)

Or are you one of the nerds who lobbies for the idea that everybody should speak Esperanto.

Concerning the idea that "everybody in the EU should speak English": since UK left the EU, there exists no EU country anymore in which English is the only official language: only in Ireland and Malta, English is one of the official languages.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Unio...



I disagree. You can't kill million years of history, so you can get more immigrants.

Languages are lot more than speak, it also describes people and the way they interact each other.




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