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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
The words of a pedantic Remainer who ignores the fact that France is trying to punish the UK for daring to leave their poxy club which they now want to dominate.
I predict pushback from the other EU nations.
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You are delusional. France has always treated its language as a great symbol of the nation and a great gift to the world. That the rest of the world doesn’t see things the same way is why France periodically does stuff like this. It also makes laws mandating certain percentages of French-language music on the radio and the like.
The only connection here with our exit from the EU is that it reduces the number of English speakers within the bloc and gives the French an excuse to argue for greater prominence for French language and less for English. They are however quietly playing down the fact that English, while no longer a major first language of the EU, remains by far the biggest second language.
This however has absolutely stuff-all to do with any French desire to punish us for leaving the EU. It is simply the sort of thing they like doing anyway.