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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, today Europe is celebrating an important date: the European Day of Languages. This event, first held in 2001, involves the European Union and, above all, the Council of Europe, which has planned events throughout Europe.
Today we welcome here our new Romanian and Bulgarian colleagues; with them, Bulgarian and Romanian will join our Community family of languages on 1 January 2007, raising the number of official languages from 20 to 22.
For us Europeans, language is synonymous with culture and history and hence with a vast historical and cultural heritage. I wonder, then, whether it would not be appropriate for us, as the European Parliament, at last to promote a constructive reform of the language regime within the Community institutions. I am certainly delighted at the arrival of the new languages and especially of those that will soon become part of our daily work, but on the other hand I am extremely concerned at the chaos and lack of written rules, as has been confirmed to me by the European Commission."@en1
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