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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by disgruntledphd2 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:06PM (#27451783)
> But Malta or Ireland could simply take one for the team and switch their nominated language.

I'm pretty sure that you can have more than one nominated language, given that Belgium and Spain have a bunch of them.

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Re:French set to replace English as EU’s ‘working language’ by madia_leva on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @03:24PM (#27452000)
Not really. Every EU Member State could only nominate one language. Some of them nominated an "alternative" one because their main one was already an official language (e.g. Irish).

This is the reason the only Spanish language which is an official EU language is Castillian. The other three (Galician, Catalan and Basque) are not EU official languages. Same happens to many other languages spoken in Europe.

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