Press Release: Multilingualism in the EU: the European Commission calls for action to promote languages and launches a new Web portal

The European Commission on 22 November 2005 adopted its first ever Communication on multilingualism, entitled 'A new Framework Strategy for Multilingualism'. The document explored the various facets of the European Commission’s policies in this field and set out a new framework strategy for multilingualism with proposals for specific actions. These covered three distinct areas where languages are of importance in the everyday lives of people in the European Union: society, the economy and the Commission’s own relations with the EU’s citizens. To mark the occasion, a new Web portal on languages was launched on the EU’s inter-institutional Website EUROPA, with access in all the 20 official languages.

• Primary Source

European Commission: Languages and Europe http://europa.eu.int/languages/en/home

---