29 Dec 20 14:26, David Rance wrote to Gerrit Kuehn:
DR> I hadn't thought about that either. I don't suppose that the DR> remaining twenty-seven countries would ever agree on which it should DR> be.
Well, actually there is no such thing as a single "official" EU language, I think. There are three languages that have an elevated status as "procedural" language: English, French and German.
DR> If English was chosen because it was the most widely spoken DR> language in the world, then Spanish should be the next choice. I DR> heard once that the number of Spanish speakers worldwide is greater DR> than even English.
Well, with Germany, Austria, and parts of Belgium and Luxembourg being native German speakers, this will probably be the most-widely spoken native language in the EU... ;-)
