Adolescent and Youth Attitudes Towards Multilingualism and EU Language Policy
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2025-09-29
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The European Union (EU) is a political body in Europe with 27 Member States across the continent as of 2025, and utilizes 24 official and working languages. The EU strives to be a bringer of peace, freedom, and intercultural trade as well as a site of multilingualism. When entering the EU, each Member State has the right to access all official documentation and proceedings in the national language of the country. The diversity of languages used amongst EU officials is made possible by a policy of pure full multilingualism, or the equality and use of all languages in the European Union’s governing bodies (Bandov, 2013). While translation remains a crucial tool for the realization of EU’s pure full multilingualism, there are not many documents that are actually ever translated into all 24 languages. English, French, and German specifically are the most used overall, with some institutions primarily using one language, such as French in the Court of Justice (Johnson, 2013). A multilingual approach seems like the perfect solution for bringing together a highly diverse continent. However, it is challenging to successfully implement a completely egalitarian system of languages and communication, as this thesis will further explore.
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