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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9592

1 February 2008
Contents Publication in full By article 29 / 35
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/multilingual
Commission finds idea of promoting "personal adoptive language" attractive

Brussels, 31/01/2008 (Agence Europe) - Presenting the Group of Intellectuals' report on the contribution of multilingualism to Intercultural Dialogue, led by Mr Amin Maalouf, the European Commission expressed its support on Thursday 31 January for the idea of learning a "personal adoptive language". This language would not be one's mother tongue or English, the language that predominates in the workplace and which is almost compulsory today, but rather, a kind of second mother tongue, chosen...

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