Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-02-19-Speech-2-302"
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"Regarding the European Indicator of Language Competence, as I said and you noted correctly, in the first phase only five languages will be assessed.
At present, the schedule is the following: this year, we are preparing a pilot project and in 2009 we will make all the preparations for this assessment so that in 2010 we will have clear results of the situation regarding these five languages. Afterwards, as I said in my speech, the Commission wants to extend this indicator to all the official languages. Nevertheless, it is still too early to say the exact moment when this extension will be made. Of course, we have to see and examine in detail the results of the assessment regarding the indicator on the five languages we start with.
On the other hand, regarding the second question you asked, the European Commission’s objective is to defend the language diversity. From this point of view, by all the actions it takes, the European Commission aims at defending both the official languages and the other languages spoken in the European Union. We have 23 official languages, over 60 regional languages, minority languages, and languages less used. From this point of view, the actions we take especially aim at these languages we have called living languages.
As regards the European Anthem, of course, the points of view differ. It is not the European Commission’s role to decide on this matter."@en1
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