Brussels, 21/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The launching of the European Year of Languages, on 19 February in Lund (Sweden), provided an opportunity for various EU celebrities to express their views on the importance in today's society of knowing a second, if not a third, foreign language. It was also an opportunity for the European Commission to publish a special edition of Eurobarometer which takes stock of the linguistic knowledge of Europeans, their opinions on how useful it is to speak...