This book examines the language policies relating to linguistic rights in European Union law and in the constitutions and legal statutes of some European Union

EU Language Law gives a comprehensive account of all language regulations and arrangements which currently exist in EU law. First and foremost, the book covers

The European Economic Community, founded in 1957, consisted of six Member States with a combined total of four official languages. By 2004, this organization ha

After the accession of ten new member-states in 2004, the number of official EU languages increased from eleven to twenty. In 2005, the Council of the European

The territory of the European Union is made up of a rich and wide-ranging universe of languages, which is not only circumscribed to the "state languages". The e