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"Mr President, at the end of May, the French National Assembly voted in favour of amending the French Constitution with regard to respect for regional languages. The latter, it may be said, constitute France’s national heritage.
One might have hoped that this decision was the start of a crucial turning point in the Jacobinic French concept applied to regional languages and to traditional national minorities. Unfortunately the French Academy of Sciences rejected it and put pressure on the Senate, who ultimately voted against this positive amendment to the French Constitution, which would have been important not only for France but for the European Union as a whole.
I do not believe that educating people in Alsatian, Breton or Catalan, or using these languages in the administration, would in any way undermine the territorial integrity or the national unity of the French nation; quite the contrary, in fact.
Mr President, long live the French-speaking world, long live regional languages, long live linguistic diversity!"@en1
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