The German government is stepping up its efforts to make German more prominent in the EU, demanding that EU documentation be translated into the language of Goethe- or else it will not attend meetings.
"Germany has a right to have these documents in German," the deputy foreign minister, Gunter Gloser, told German news agency DPA on Thursday (20 april).
In a joint statement earlier this month, the German parliament and the French national assembly denounced the "unacceptable drif...
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