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Recognizing Regional Languages

By The Daily Dish

Jul 14 2008, 7:47 AM ET

A Frenchman fears a German plot:

This question of regional languages in Europe should also be seen in the context of a German-inspired geopolitical initiative in Brussels. Today in Europe there are interest groups who agitate for reforming Europe on an imperial political model. The gambit of encouraging the recognition of all minority languages is just a decoy, an oblique strategy that in fact aims to deconstruct, to de-knit European nations other than Germany, who all include groups belonging to linguistic minorities.



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