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The use of English in the post-Brexit European Union

At a press conference in May 2017, Jean-Claude Juncker, outgoing president of the European Commission, quipped “Slowly but surely, English is losing importance”, before switching to French for the main part of his speech. Clearly, he was having a dig about the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, which, by 2017, was already proving to be an exhausting, tedious process for all sides.

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