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qwertz:Saluton,

Is the EU multilingualism bubble a chance to establish Esperanto as an 2nd bridge language aside English?

What do you think?

Actually, there doesn't and can not excist equality of all EU languages in practice. There excist a 45 minute technical briefing (ec.europa.eu/avservices) by the DG translation department for that issue. It's very interesting background information about the current (Feb 19/2009) EU translation process. I can't list everything right now what is mentioned at this technical briefing. But feel free to mentioned the time line position (XX:XX minute) with your comments.

To get the mp3 you should browse to the ec.europa.eu/avservices audio > thematic > multilingualism section or you can download the regarding mp3 file from [url=http://hotfile.com/dl/20173804/457679a/I_E_b_a_r_l... ]here[/url] (40MB) .

"Is English becoming a rare language?": technical briefing
Thematic: Multilingualism (REF: 61902)

Don't use headphones for listening, otherwise you get the first minutes french from the right and english from the left. But after that the briefing is hold in english.

In my opinion one day this "EU multilingualism bubble" will burst with a big bang. Every new EU member will change the EU construction and brings us closer to this situation. Because, how long most non-english EU member will accept missing official discussing papers translated into their native language?

EU multilingualism in practice at 01:13 minute by a french MEP:

"There is a answer sheet which is in english available only ... it's not intented usally to be translated?"

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