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The EU is about to lose its primary English language population.

Harry Palmr · 2019-01-13 20:26:52

So does that mean the lingua franca which moved from French to English over the last 40 years will shift back and result in a dedicated Franco-German based EU that will shunt the concerns of low corporation tax Ireland to the margins? By being politically "good Europeans" but shoddy speaker of languages and with a culture…

13-01-2019 8:26pm

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So does that mean the lingua franca which moved from French to English over the last 40 years will shift back and result in a dedicated Franco-German based EU that will shunt the concerns of low corporation tax Ireland to the margins? By being politically "good Europeans" but shoddy speaker of languages and with a culture that is thoroughly Atlantic are we about to end up on the periphery without our best EU friend?

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#2 13-01-2019 8:39pm

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Mod- Politics forum. 2 of them.
https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1728 Politics
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