The application of multilingualism in the European Union context

Part I of the paper provides an overview of the rationale and legal basis underlying the European Union’s current language policy, outlining the language regime applicable to the Community institutions and bodies and discusses exceptions and limitations to multilingualism associated with the particular situation of Member States with more than one official language or stemming from some recent case-law on the institutions’ language regime.

Part II examines the issue of the name of the single currency and some of the reasons underlying the ECB’s stance on proposed national variations in its spelling.

The author is Phoebus Athanassiou.