In Europe it certainly seems persistent as a growth standardization language everywhere except for Russia (~5% English adoption) and a select few other nations. I have a bunch of friends from Romania and Ukraine, English is a status symbol, a point of pride if you know the language, and in many cases it can be a considerable boost to job prospects if you can put it on your resume.

Sweden pretty well leads Europe when it comes to highest adoption of English as a second language. I've always thought that was a valuable asset for them as a nation when it comes to competing in global tech and business generally. Being able to build an Internet company in Sweden and have no language barrier (and less of a cultural understanding barrier as well) to then go and push into the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand markets ($27 trillion in economy via one primary language, twice the size of China's economy). In terms of adoption you also get the Netherlands at over 90%, the Phillipines at over 90%, Denmark at 86%, Israel at 85%. Another two trillion dollars in economy that has English in fluent-level standard use. In total you get half the global economy with English.