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Bundestag MPs want German language used more in EU
By EUobserver
A group of three Bundestag members have formed a lobby-group to push for German to be spoken more often in the EU institutions, Sueddeutsche Zeitung reports. The cross-party group already met with EU commissioner Guenther Oettinger over the issue and has sent chancellor Angela Merkel a letter calling for an "increased use" of German "in all international institutions", to avoid German being reduced to a kind of "residual language".