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This initiative shows that it is illusory and clumsy to want to deal with questions at European level that should remain strictly national. This is because, not satisfied with supranational integration, which weakens the Member States by ridding them of their sovereignty from the top, or with infranational regionalisation, which works from the bottom up, it is language, one of the essential components of national unity of some Member States, that is being attacked.
Not only does the plan aim to recognise linguistic diversity in an objective way, but also to promote it to the detriment of national languages. Let us not doubt, moreover, that the recognition of minority and regional languages also prepares for the recognition of those people who use them…
I cannot, therefore, accept that the Commission should establish ‘criteria for a definition of a minority or regional language for the purposes of the possible programme for linguistic diversity’ or, another source of worry, the desire that the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages should be binding in its effects.
I am completely in favour of keeping cultural identities and regional linguistic identities, and I also remain faithful to the principles set down in our Constitution: ‘France is a republic, indivisible’, ‘the language of the Republic is French’."@en1
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