Paris wants to take advantage of its presidency in 2022 to relaunch French within the EU

Correspondent in Brussels

Will the French presidency of the EU, which will begin on January 1, 2022, be that of a lasting return to favor of the language of Molière in Brussels? Paris is working hard on this, as are the teams from France's permanent representation to the EU. The objective is clear: to revive our language, more and more eclipsed, even erased by English or by “Globish”, a cheap version of Shakespeare's language. "

The French presidency of the Council of the European Union, from January to June 2022, will be an opportunity for France to raise this vital fight for multilingualism

", underlined in April the ministers Clément Beaune and Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, in respectively responsible for European Affairs and La Francophonie,in a tribune at

Le Figaro

.

Many rules have already been laid down, no doubt in order to prepare people's minds for the complications to come.

Concretely, all ministerial meetings will be

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