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Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 20:41:39 +0100
From: Andrew Jameson <[log in to unmask]>
To: german-studies <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Fw: Lnet: German as Official EU language
FYI
Andrew Jameson
Chair, Russian Committee, ALL
Languages and Professional Development
1 Brook Street, Lancaster LA1 1SL UK
Tel: 01524 32371 (+44 1524 32371)
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> Subject: Lnet: German as Official EU language
> Date: 02 July 1999 19:42
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> Colleagues may have seen the article in Thursday's Die Welt that the Finns
> do not intend to provide translations into German at the upcoming Eu
> conferences for which they have the presidency. The German delegation is
> threatening to boycott sittings as a consequence. You can read another
> version at:
>
> http://www.frankfurter-rundschau.de/fr/102/t102003.htm
>
> We all know that German is the most widely spoken first language in the EU
> and teachers of German surely have an interest in promoting German and
> increasing its world profile.
>
> I have been looking for an appropriate Finnish email address to complain to.
>
>
> The best I have found is the education section of a site advertising the
> forthcoming Finnish presidentship of the EU. [log in to unmask]
>
> You can write to the Finnish Embassy in Germany at the following address
> [log in to unmask]
>
> Alan Crease
> Royal Grammar School
> High Wycombe
>
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