Berlin sees red over English language dominance in Brussels
- From: "«Pas de deux»" <kamouraska3@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:56:01 -0400
21.04.2006 By Teresa Küchler
The German government is stepping up its efforts to make German more
prominent in the EU, demanding that EU documentation be translated into
German, or else they will not attend meetings.
"Germany has a right to have these documents in German," the deputy
foreign minister, Gunter Gloser, told German news agency DPA on Thursday
(20 april).
In a joint statement earlier this month, the German parliament and the
French national assembly denounced the "unacceptable drift toward a
monolingual system" dominated by English. ...
Ombudsman Nikiforos Diamandouros made the request to the council -
representing member states - after a German language association
complained that presidency websites was only available in English and
French.
With the union's enlargement towards the east in 2004, the second EU
language is German, spoken by 12 percent of citizens.
French is spoken by close to 11 percent, followed by Spanish.
Currently, 62 percent of EU institution texts are drafted in English,
and large parts of EU-information on-line is never translated into the
mother tongue of readers ? particularly those speaking smaller
languages. ...
Spain and Italy, the union's fourth and fifth largest countries, have
made repeated complaints about staff reshuffles in the EU institution
translation services, claiming Spanish and Italian is being cut back
while English, French and German remains untouched. ...
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