By Benjamin Fox | Euractiv.com, 31 oct. 2023 - Photo : The Brief is Euractiv's evening newsletter. [EPA-EFE/CHRISTIAN HARTMANN/POOL MAXPPP OUT]
England may be out of the EU, but English has not gone anywhere. If anything, its position as the first language in Brussels is more entrenched than ever. This has long been a sore point for some French officials.
Now, President Emmanuel Macron’s government has decided to take the language war to court over the European Commission’s recent move to hire new officials using a selection process involving some tests that are only given in English.