Brexit and Multilingualism in the European Union

Victor Ginsburgh and Juan Moreno-Ternero

No 22.02, Working Papers from Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics

Abstract: The EU spends more than one billion euros per year ensuring translation and interpretation of 24 languages 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 tries to estimate the value of keeping English as a procedural language (in fact, almost a lingua franca) in the post-Brexit EU, where, today, just about one percent of the population speaks it as native language.

Keywords: Multilingualism; European Union; Brexit; budget sharing; disenfranchisement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2022
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Journal Article: Brexit and multilingualism in the European Union (2022)
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