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Re:The Case for a Confederal Europe by auganov on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:11PM (#31853019)
> What makes you think that? I'm pro-EU and ideally I would like to see it turn into a full fledged country. The issue is that the general population doesn't want this (yet).

Disbanding the EU is also not popular with the general population, yet there are many people discussing it and non-trivial political factions supporting it (yes, often they're not serious about it, but still). Where are the people pushing for a common language? My impression is most staunch EU supporters aren't just not pushing for this - they'd actively try to prevent national languages from dying.

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Re:The Case for a Confederal Europe by ZeroGravitas on Thursday June 23, 2022 @03:01PM (#31853711)
Several countries in the EU have multiple national languages, so it seems strange to expect an amalgamation of them all to only have one.

https://www.nationsonline.org/oneworld/european_languages.ht...

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Re:The Case for a Confederal Europe by auganov on Thursday June 23, 2022 @04:15PM (#31854601)
You cannot have a real major powerful country if the people can't communicate with each other. You cannot have a people.

All of these countries with multiple languages on the list are tiny, monolingual in practice or struggling with separatism/conflict. Most fit into into at least 2 of these 3 categories. And certainly none of them have 20+ official languages.

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