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Saturday, January 22, 2005DE-CSU: "The language of the Federal Republic of Germany shall be German".According to a press report [in German only, sorry], the Secretary General of the Christian Social Union (CSU, the Bavarian counterpart to the Christian Democratic Union, CDU, established elsewhere in Germany), Mr. Markus Söder, has argued in favour of a proposed amendment of the German Basic Law (in other countries such law would be called "constitution") stipulating that "The language of the Federal Republic of Germany shall be German". Up to now, there are only statutory regulations in various laws setting out that German is the default language to be used by the authorities and the courts.
I am not in favour of any such motions to install the German language even tighter into the law. There are huge problems within the EU caused by the Babylonian multitude of Official languages throughout the various EU Member States. We will have to reduce this huge number of languages required for official purposes in order to keep the EU procedures workable. If the CSU proposal were actually implemented it could, for example, be much more difficult to reach a political solution concerning the problem of the translation of European Patents into the Official languages of the designated states. A very convincing proposal supported by the industry and which is also an aspect of the London Agreement is to accept English as a common language for patent publications. Such pragmatic solutions might be rendered virtually impossible if the German language would be constitutionally enshrined as the obligatory language throughout Germany. Perhaps even this website might become illegal because of I refrain to provide my blog and other related contents also in German.
We should be prepared to accept English as the "pilot language" for all Official purposes in the context of the EU integration.
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