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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by dep_b on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @06:54AM (#16528262)
It's 51% including the UK and Ireland. Also included are places like Norway, The Netherlands and Denmark. So even if in 2/3rds of the countries having a fluent conversation in English is hard or impossible with most inhabitants still the majority of the people that live in Europe speak it well enough.

I think even less people speak Spanish in the US while about 1/3rd of the country used to be Spanish and the rest of the continent bar Canada speaks it.

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Re:European Union plans to tax tech giants on local revenue by user5994461 on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:21PM (#16533638)
The vast majority of people who live in Europe are not able to hold a conversation in English.

Your 51% counts any people who attended an English class in school. It's not a meaningful level of proficiency.

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