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A comment on Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning. Parent comment

Re:Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning by CaptainZapp on Monday July 13, 2015 @08:03AM (#9877550) 

   and now has another despotic leader who might stay another 20 who speaks poor English...
What has his conduct of the English language to do with governing a country, where Italian is the main spoken language?

This is extremely arrogant and has nothing, whatsoever, to do with the issue.

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Re:Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning by jazzyk on Monday July 13, 2015 @10:06AM (#9878113)
True, we are talking about economics, not languages, so the OP projected PM's incompetence in one area without providing additional facts.

However, I see nothing arrogant for his country citizens (who pay his salary) to expect of the highest-level official of a EU country to have such basic skills as speaking English.

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Re:Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning by CaptainZapp on Monday July 13, 2015 @10:18AM (#9878187)
There are 24 official languages in the EU, of which English is only one.

Here's from the source, which is as official as it gets: http://ec.europa.eu/languages/policy/linguistic-diversity/of...

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Re:Yanis Varoufakis' first interview since resigning by jazzyk on Monday July 13, 2015 @10:52AM (#9878441)
On paper, yes.

In reality, English is being used, as it is everywhere else in the world whenever you need to talk to people from other countries.

Evidence: http://www.theguardian.com/education/datablog/2014/may/21/eu...

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