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With Prime Minister David Cameron having vowed to hold a referendum on UK membership of the EU, Britain's penchant for EU bashing is well publicised. But there are political parties in other member states which are far from in love with the European project, and whose stance against integration has been fanned by the worsening of the economic crisis.

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With the EU agreeing a near freeze in overseas development aid, persuading citizens to back further national contributions will be a tricky but necessary task, says Irish Trade and Development Minister Joe Costello.

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Nature conservation ignored in EU move to green energy
When it comes to choosing sites for wind farms, nature conservation is always the last thing to be considered, falling behind the price of land, proximity to power lines and opposition from locals, writes Luke Dale-Harris.

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Europe communicates in 'bastardised' English - 01 October 2010 - News

With every round of enlargement, the EU's internal correspondence has steered further towards English as its main working language, heard participants at a conference in Brussels this week.

Commission wants fewer Anglophone spokespersons - 22 January 2010 - News

Despite the EU executive's efforts to hire a more multilingual and diverse team for its spokespersons' service, critics condemn the "dangerous" trend in the European institutions towards the linguistic and cultural hegemony of the English language.

Commission looks at language skills to boost EU 'prosperity' - 15 September 2008 - News

The European Commission will present a new EU languages strategy on 18 September, emphasising the importance of language skills in addressing challenges as diverse as globalisation and increased mobility and immigration.

Teachers back 'personal adoptive' language proposal - 16 April 2008 - News

Representatives of the academic community gave their backing to the idea of a 'personal adoptive' language at a public hearing on multilingualism yesterday (15 April), with some suggesting EU funding be made available for the proposal.

Language use in the EU - 07 March 2008 - LinksDossier

Promoting a multilingual economy, giving citizens access to European Union information in their own languages and encouraging linguistic diversity through language learning: these are the principles underpinning the Commission's multilingualism policy.

EU translation policy 'here to stay' - 25 February 2008 - News

The multilingual nature of the EU institutions is "too politically sensitive" an issue to be dramatically reformed and is thus "here to stay", according to the Commission's translation chief, Juhani Lönnroth.

EU to promote language learning as 'leisure' - 31 January 2008 - News

More needs to be done to promote language learning outside of formal educational settings if breakthroughs are to be made in spreading language use across the EU, Commissioner Leonard Orban will say today, presenting the conclusions of a report on multilingualism.

EU set to promote language learning and linguistic diversity - 24 July 2003 - News

The Commission has adopted an action plan for the period 2004-2006 aimed at promoting language learning and linguistic diversity throughout the EU.

MEPs want Constitution to extend to linguistic diversity - 09 July 2003 - News

The Parliament's Culture Committee has called on the forthcoming IGC to include in the EU's draft Constitution provisions on the promotion of linguistic diversity.

Reding reveals details of future action plan on linguistic diversity - 14 February 2003 - News

Speaking at the European Parliament, Viviane Reding, Education Commissioner, revealed details on the future action plan for language-learning and linguistic diversity on 11 February 2003.

Council of Europe calls for linguistic diversity on the internet - 26 September 2002 - News

On this year's 'European Day of Languages', 26 September, the Council of Europe calls for linguistic diversity on the internet.

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