French politicians want English scrapped as EU language
Two politicians in France have called on the European Union to scrap English as one of the official languages of the body.
"The English language no longer has any legitimacy in Brussels,” read a Monday tweet by Robert Menard, the far-right mayor of the southern town of Beziers.
Similar calls have been heard across the political spectrum, with Jean-Luc Melenchon, the leader of France’s far-left Left Party, saying that English can no longer serve as a means of official communication after voters in Britain decided that their country should leave the 28-nation bloc.
“English can no-longer be the third working language of the European Parliament,” said Melenchon, adding that even people in Ireland would have no problem if English disappears from the EU as their official language is Gaelic and not English.
The EU has 24 official and working languages, with English being the most dominant in communications between the policymakers of the bloc.
Education First, an international language training company, said in 2014 report that French adults were the weakest in the EU in English proficiency, adding that they were “making little effort to improve.”
People in Britain voted 52 to 48 percent to leave the European Union on Thursday.
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