Research Catalog

Title

Many tongues, one family : languages in the European Union.

Publication

Luxembourg : Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

European Commission. Directorate-General Press and Communication

Description

22 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

While committed to integration at European level, the EU promotes the linguistic and cultural diversity of its peoples. It does so by promoting the teaching and learning of their languages, including minority and regional languages. The EUʹs ambitious goal, set out in a new action plan, is that as many of its citizens as possible should speak one - and ideally two - languages in addition to their mother tongue.The European Union as an organisation now works with 20 official languages. This is because, in a democracy, the laws it applies must be understandable to all its citizens. There can be no discrimination, for instance, between the way people in big and small countries are treated. In their dealings with the EU institutions, all citizens have the right to use their own national language - as do their elected representatives in the European Parliament.

Series Statement

Europe on the move.

Uniform Title

Europe on the move

Subject

• Language policy > European Union countries
• Europe > Languages
• European Union countries > Languages

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography p. 22.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Living languages -- The tongues of Europe -- Regional and minority languages -- Language and mobility -- Promoting language learning -- A new plan of action -- A multilingual European Union -- Meeting the challenge.

ISBN

9289477598 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 56638677
• SCSB-12307577

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library