Paris is to train 2000 teachers over the next three years in a bid to promote the French language in the enlarged EU.
The French Foreign Ministry yesterday announced the three-year plan, designed, they say, to promote the language in the 10 new EU member states as well as Bulgaria and Romania.
Each wave of enlargement in the European Union in recent decades has resulted in an increase in the prominence of English in Europe, often to the detriment of French.
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