Language Differences Disrupt EU Meeting

“An EU economic summit meeting turned into a linguistic battleground when President Jacques Chirac of France stormed out of a high-level meeting because it was being held in the language of Shakespeare rather than the language of Voltaire.” (International Herald Tribune, Friday)

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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