WILL ENGLISH REMAIN AN OFFICIAL EU LANGUAGE AFTER BREXIT

 

Rumours have spread online, suggesting that the European Union was ready to discard the English language after Brexit came into force, on the 1^st of January 2021.

An article in the Scottish newspaper “The National” had quoted a European affairs correspondent, who claimed that “English was set to become downloaded to a working language after member states decided against using it for translations of documents.”  These views were also shared by “The New European”.

Back in 2016, Brexit year, a prominent member of the European Parliament was quoted saying, “If we don’t have the UK, we don’t have English.”

 

But according to Euronews, the EU firmly denied the rumours.  “This is not true,” said a European Commission spokesperson for the EU/UK negotiations, “English will remain an official language in the European Union.”

The European Union welcomes the New Year, 2021, in all European languages including English!