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I don’t care which language it is, but pick one as the official one. English makes sense economically. German cannot happen because the past. Spanish or German or French are all fine, but of course it cannot be agreed on. So English makes it easier as well for that reasons maybe.

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Pick Italian. Beautiful language, lots of common words with most languages and I don’t think any non-EU countries use it. And if everything else fails, you start using your hands to communicate.

Mid 40s here and wouldn’t mind at all to start learning Italian if it was the common language of EU.

Why pick the language of one of the weakest EU members?

Not sure why we have this bad reputation in the Anglo world, but we are the third economy in Europe, and the second manufacturing power after Germany. Huge differences between north (closer to Germany) and south (closer to Spain). Huge private wealth despite indebted government. Wouldn’t call this weak.

It has the best operas.

And Poland has the best pierogis and I like pierogis more than operas. ;-)

One issue is that it relies on phrases a lot - so much so that Google Translate has a hard time figuring out the intended meaning.

Also, like everything in Italy, phrases used depend on the region.

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