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Mr Berlusconi has called for respect of “the dignity” of all EU languages (Photo: EUobserver)

Berlusconi in bid to boost Italian in EU

Italy's prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has urged his ministers to boycott EU meetings where no documentation is provided in Italian in a bid to promote the language of Dante.

They should walk out of those meetings where they are forced to speak a language other than their own, Mr Berlusconi wrote in a letter to his colleagues, the Guardian reports.

It is essential that the EU also guarantees "the dignity" of those languages which are less spoken in the Union, the prime ministe...

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Mr Berlusconi has called for respect of “the dignity” of all EU languages (Photo: EUobserver)

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