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1、1Europe’sthreelanguageproblemsPhilippeVanParijsPreparedforMultilingualisminLawandPolitics,R.Bellamy,D.Castiglione&C.Longmaneds.,Oxford:Hart.Provisionaldraft.CommentswelcomeOnthe7thofMarch2001,thePresidentoftheEuropeanCommissionRomanoProdi,the(then)currentChairmanoftheEurope
2、anCouncilandSwedishPrimeMinisterGoeranPersson,andthe(then)futureChairmanoftheEuropeanCouncilandBelgianPrimeMinisterGuyVerhofstadtmethundredsofpupilsfromthreeBrussels-basedEuropeanschoolsinthecanteenofoneoftheseschools.«Thewishofthesehighpersonalities»,thepupilsweretoldinthe
3、officialannouncement,«istoopenadebateonthefutureofEuropeamongEurope’syouthwithintheframeworkofaEuropeanschool.Thisiswhyweinviteallpupilsofallthreeschoolstojoinusthatafternoonwiththeirteachersinordertoattendthedebateandpossiblytotakepartinitbyaskingquestions.»Manypupilsfromt
4、heschools’elevenlanguagesections(correspondingtotheEU’selevenofficiallanguages)queuedtoaskaquestion,includingaGreekgirl,whoaskedPresidentProdiabouttheEU’spolicyasregardslanguages.«Fromitsverybeginning»,Prodirepliedinsubstance,«equalitybetweenofficiallanguageshasbeenafundame
5、ntalprincipleoftheEuropeaninstitutions,anditmustremainso».Andthe2meetingmovedontothenextpupilinthequeue.1ThisessayisbasedonlecturesgivenattheUniversityofBritishColumbia(toasomewhatdisturbedthaudienceinthemorningofSeptember11,2001),attheUniversityofParisIV-Sorbonne(16March20
6、02),attheUniversitatPompeuFabra(24April2003),atOxfordUniversity(1May2003),attheUniversityofSiena(6July2003),attheAustralianNationalUnivesityinCanberra(15July2003)andattheCursosdeVeranooftheUniversidadComplutenseinSanLorenzodelElscorial(18July2003).Italsobenefittedgreatlyfro
7、mthreeworkshopsrespectivelyheldattheEuropeanUniversityInstitute(«LinguisticDiversityandEuropeanLaw»,directedbyBrunoDeWitte,Florence,12-13November2001),theInternationalInstitutefortheSociologyofLaw("ThepublicdiscourseofLawandPoliticsinMultilingualSocieties",directedbyRichard
8、BellamyandDarioCastiglione,Oñati,5-8June2002),andtheHooverChairofEconomicandSocial
