16/10/2020 (Agence Europe) – MEP Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé (EPP, France) deeply regrets the decision of the European Public Prosecutor's Office to choose English as its future working language. In a letter addressed to the Chief Prosecutor of the European Public Prosecutor's Office and published on Friday 16 October, she considered that “this decision contributes to perpetuating the attacks on multilingualism which should be the rule within the European bodies”. The MEP said that there were a number of findings in favour of French as a working language, including the fact that, of the 22 Member States participating in the European Public Prosecutor's Office, the only one with English as its official language is Malta, while three of them have French as their official language. In addition, the seat of the European Public Prosecutor's Office is established within the buildings of the Court of Justice of the European Union, whose procedural language is French, notes Ms Colin-Oesterlé. See the letter (in French): https://bit.ly/2HbzD9s (MF)