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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8903

8 March 2005
A LOOK BEHIND THE NEWS / A look behind the news, by ferdinando riccardi
In the absence of a wholly satisfactory solution to the problem of languages in the EU, pragmatic but partial measures will have to do

Two requirements, hard to reconcile. Our bulletin summed up the latest row over language use in the EU, caused by a few measures relating to how the press room works, but this column left well alone. Why? Because I have no solution to offer. I haven't forgotten that having made a few reasonable suggestions to be taken at Community level, a former French Minister for European Affairs (today a member of the European Parliament) was attacked from all sides and withdrew from the fray, promising...

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