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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10057

16 January 2010
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/french-speaking world
Paris calls for French to be given greater importance in European institutions

Brussels, 15/01/2010 (Agence Europe) - Former French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, who is President Nicolas Sarkozy's personal representative for the French-speaking world, was in Brussels on 14 January to argue for the use of French in the EU institutions. He met the Presidents of the European Council, Heman Van Rompuy, the Commission, José Manuel Barroso, and the Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, to make them aware of this issue. With the rise in the power of English, “the situation in...

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