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To: LindyBill who wrote (38470)	4/8/2004 6:45:53 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (2) of 793912

France's goal from "day one" has been to use the EU to create a French run Europe. French-speaking and all... excerpt: news.bbc.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------- The obvious choice, in fact, would be English, which is more widely spoken as a second language than any other. But the French - who have the parliament on their soil and who, after all, were founder-members of the EU - were outraged by the very suggestion. They are already miffed at the slow easing-out of their language as the chief means of communication in the European Commission, where English is steadily gaining ground. EU commissioners from the new member states are being offered a free crash course at a chateau in the south of France, while lower-level civil servants will get free French lessons in Brussels.

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