Article: EU FOREIGN MINISTERS ASK AMBASSADORS TO LOOK INTO LANGUAGE USE AT COUNCIL MEETINGS.

No doubt wishing to avoid a clash over what has become a hot potato of late, EU Foreign Ministers decided in restricted session of their meeting in Brussels on September 13 to ask the Committee of Member States' Permanent Representatives to the EU (COREPER), to examine the question as to which languages should be used as a matter of course at informal meetings of the Council of Ministers. Since the EEC's inception in 1958, and more particularly since the accession of the United Kingdom and Ireland in 1973, the European Community has tended to use English, plus the language of the host country which is currently exercising the six-monthly rotating EU Presidency, plus ...

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