Brits in Brussels – speaking the right language?
By Phillip Souta At the end of a low-key European Council meeting last week, David Cameron, the Prime Minister, said that Britain had formed an “unprecedented alliance” of like-minded states focused on boosting growth through completion of the single market and other reforms. The 20 February letter co-signed by him and 11 other EU...
Report estimates Britain’s lack of foreign language speakers costs economy GBP 17 billion a year
By Phillip Souta One of the main reasons why the UK is so poorly represented in the European Union’s institutions is the fact that Brits are far less adept with languages than their continental cousins. A new report by the Education and Employers Taskforce estimates the cost to the UK economy of Britain’s lack of foreign...
