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Mr President, thank you for your encouragement. I want also to thank you for the discussion confirming that multilingualism is important both from the aspect of migration and from the aspect of European integration, whether we consider it in its wider or its narrower meaning.
I would like to say only that we have a sufficient number of good examples demonstrating how this issue can be developed positively. Let me mention just two of them. Fresh surveys were published this September in connection with European Language Day on 26 September. According to the surveys, half the population of the Union can speak one foreign language. This is a decent number, and one that continues to rise, although it needs to be said that there are countries where the percentage of the population capable of communicating in a foreign language is close to 90%. We also have a group of countries where only around 30% of the population can communicate in a foreign language. There is a 1 + 2 model (mother tongue + 2 foreign languages) – but on average, in today’s European education system, it is approximately 1.5, that is, 1 + 1.5. There are, however, also countries among the EU-25 where pupils learn more than two foreign languages, that is, 1 + more than 2, and other countries where they learn one foreign language or less. It is a challenge for the Member States to achieve much more in this area, because there are also implications for employment, mobility, personal and mental development and, naturally, for tolerance, as well as the ability to understand different cultures and live in a multicultural environment.
I want to emphasise that the European Commission is to facilitate a website on the European portal that should serve just the purpose mentioned by Christa Prets – for language teaching and linguistic diversity. Thank you very much for your support and your discussions; my special thanks go to the rapporteur."@en1
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