The Romanian candidate for EU commissioner emerged unscathed from a three-hour long hearing before MEPs on Monday (27 November), but the limits of his multilingualism portfolio were clearly exposed.
Leonard Orban gave careful answers throughout the hearing often repeating that he could not force member states to take action on multilingualism, underlining the fact that education and intercultural issues – important areas for his portfolio – are essentially member state issues.
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