The English language no longer has any legitimacy in Brussels, tweeted the mayor of the southern town of Beziers, Robert Menard.
Lawyers from Leigh Day solicitors argued that Brexit would mean the claimants were no longer EU citizens and therefore no longer afforded the rights of free movement which flow from EU citizenship. (Photo: AFP/Representational Image)
Paris: French purists have never taken kindly to having English thrust upon them, and some have seized upon Brexit as a chance to rid themselves of Shakespeare’s language — at least at EU headquarters. The shock of the decision across the Channel to break with the European Union had barely begun to sink in when two French politicians demanded that Britain, before shutting the door, take its language along with it.
“The English language no longer has any legitimacy in Brussels,” tweeted the mayor of the southern town of Beziers, Robert Menard. Another leader, Jean-Luc Melenchon, tweeted: “English can no-longer be the third working language of the European parliament.”
( Source : AFP )
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