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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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