LUXEMBOURG CASE
July 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLSOME linguistic purists may sneer at Luxembourgish, calling it a mere dialect of German, but it is an official language of the European Union's (EU) richest country and if you want to be a locally registered lawyer, you must learn it. This challenge has annoyed the European Commission, which has formally threatened Luxembourg with legal action if it does not scrap the requirement. Brussels is not concerned about the general usefulness of knowing a language with just 300,000 speakers, but because it allegedly breaks directive 98/5/EC on the ...
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