Friday, February 27, 2004

French decline

Enlargement of the EU is leading to a decline in the importance of French in the EU. Only 13% of potential EU officials from the new member states chose French for their recruiting tests. That's below German 18% and completely dwarfed by the 69% who chose to do the tests in English.

English is also in something of a decline, from its current position as the world's number 2 language.