NDLI: Politics and policies of promoting multilingualism in the European Union

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Romaine, Suzanne
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This article examines the politics of policies promoting multilingualism in the European Union (EU), specifically in light of the recently released European Union Civil Society Platform on Multilingualism. As the most far-reaching and ambitious policy document issued by the European Commission, the Platform warrants close scrutiny at a significant moment when multilingualism seemed poised to become a policy field in its own right. This is an extremely important move given the fact that language policy has been politically untouchable at inter-governmental level and there is to date no coherent legally binding language policy either at the level of EU institutions or in member-states. I raise the question of whether the situation is likely to change in response to the Platform at a time when public support for European integration has been waning and the economic crisis surrounding the euro poses a new threat to the EU. The current austerity climate makes multilingual policy an easy target for budget cuts as evidenced in the European Parliament’s recent removal of the requirement to translate its plenary sessions into all 23 official languages.
Starting Page	115
Ending Page	137
Page Count	23
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15684555
Journal	Language Policy
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15731863
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-03-06
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	European Union Language policy Multilingualism Language rights Minorities Applied Linguistics Language Education Sociolinguistics Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Linguistics and Language

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