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Macron Wants to Boost French Language Around the World

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The French president Emmanuel Macron is to spend hundreds of millions of euros boosting the French language worldwide, in a push to overtake English in Africa, increase the use of French online and teach French to more European officials to loosen the grip of the English language on Brussels, The Guardian reports.

Macron hailed French as a ''language of freedom'' as he set out plans to pour funds into increasing French teaching and doubling the number of students in French schools abroad.

Macron said he wanted to boost French amid the widespread use of English in the EU.

''The situation now is quite paradoxical. English has probably never been as present in Brussels at the time when we are talking about Brexit,'' he said. ''This domination is not inevitable. It’s up to us to set some rules, to be present, and make French the language with which one has access to a number of opportunities''.

French was long dominant at EU headquarters in Brussels but English has become ubiquitous in European institutions, especially since eastern European members joined the bloc in 2004.


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