Brexit and multilingualism in the European Union

Victor Ginsburgh and Juan Moreno-Ternero

No 2020-16, Working Papers ECARES from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: The EU spends more than one billion euros per year, translating and interpreting, to preserve multilingualism. We examine how this budget should be fairly allocated, taking into account linguistic and economic realities of each member country. Our analysis helps to estimate the value of keeping English as a procedural language (in fact, almost a lingua franca) in the post-Brexit EU, where just about one percent of its population will have it as native language.

Keywords: Multilingualism; European Union; budget sharing; lexical distances; Brexit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 p.
Date: 2020-05
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