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The Radical Members voted against the report not only because it opposes the liberalisation of international trade and surrenders to cultural relativism, as well as protectionism, but also because it does not seem to understand the dangers of cultural and linguistic annihilation at the hands of nationalists and proponents of state control.
National policies that undermine linguistic diversity in the teaching of foreign languages – that is, the
obligation to learn just one foreign language, English – are dominant in both the European Union and the acceding countries. The European institutions themselves are often mono- or bilingual. The resolution lacks any reference to innovative solutions to communication requirements on a non-discriminatory basis, for instance by envisaging the use of neutral languages like the international language Esperanto. It also lacks any reference to the little protection afforded to the languages of indigenous populations and immigrants and to sign language.
Of the concrete proposals that have already found a certain consensus at an international level, I should like to mention the proposal by the Esperanto Radical Association for the Language Policy Observatory, which was also recently recommended by UNESCO’s 32nd General Conference. There is indeed a need for an up-to-date picture of language practices and legislation and of the use and recognition of minority languages within states."@en1
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