Linguistic Policies in the Post-Brexit European Union

Victor Ginsburgh, Juan Moreno-Ternero and Shlomo Weber
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Shlomo Weber: New Uzbekistan University

Chapter Chapter 18 in The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language, 2026, pp 507-530 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The European Union has always implemented linguistic policies aimed to preserve multilingualism, one of its pillars. Large amounts of resources have been devoted to ensure translation and interpretation. Nevertheless, English gradually enjoyed increasing importance as a procedural language to the extent of becoming almost a lingua franca, right before Brexit. We review, from an economic perspective, how linguistic policies could be affected in the post-Brexit EU, in which essentially only one percent of the population only speaks and writes English as native language.

Keywords: Multilingualism; Translation; European Union; Brexit; Disenfranchisement; Cost sharing; Communicative benefits; Lingua franca; English; Linguistic distances (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-88240-1_18

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