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by nradov 8 days ago
It's ironic that the EU has adopted English as their primary language now that England is no longer in the EU.
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It almost certainly makes it easier to adopt English, since it no longer has the political optics of favoring a country.
The issue i with this type of "pragmatism" that leads English being the main working language (a language that is only official in one country and even there is "seen as colonial relic") is this sort of half-assing attitude is what created the status quo - EU and european people lacking autonomy in all sorts of social and economic life.
Ireland?
Ireland can claim that actually they'd rather it be gaelic. It has the perception of a colonizer language for them too.