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EU Language Law

Second Revised Edition
Stefaan van der Jeught
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EU Language Law provides a comprehensive overview of all the legal provisions

governing the use of languages in the EU. It covers the choice of Treaty

languages and the rationale behind the implicit language arrangements of the

EU institutions, bodies and agencies, as well as the designation of official and

working languages. It provides guidance on how to deal with discrepancies

between equally authentic linguistic versions of EU law. The book also

examines all the provisions of EU law on the use of languages in the area of

freedom, security and justice, covering a wide range of topics, including road

traffic offences, the recognition of national court decisions, the European

arrest warrant and the linguistic rights of crime victims. It also focuses

on the impact of EU law on regulatory linguistic requirements in the EU

internal market, providing a comprehensive overview of the rules on product

labelling and the assessment of language skills for employees or self-employed

professionals, such as doctors and lawyers who wish to work in other EU

Member States. It also covers other key issues such as language testing as

part of integration programmes for newcomers in society. In this respect, the

2025 edition is more comprehensive than the previous one and offers valuable

insights for all those involved in the field of EU language regulation, including

academics, legal practitioners and policy-makers.

About the author(s)

Stefaan van der Jeught is a press officer in the Communication Directorate of the European Court of Justice. He is a part-time professor of European constitutional law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He received his PhD from this university in 2015 with a dissertation on ‘Conflicting language policies in the European Union and its Member States’ and has since continued to research, guest lecture and publish on related topics.

Table of Contents

Table of contents

 

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

 

PART I Setting the scene: what is language law?

I Linguistic diversity throughout history

II Traditional aims of the regulation of language use

1 National unity and social cohesion

2 Protection of linguistic minorities and Language diversity

III Scope of the regulation of language use

1 Variatio delectat: a great variety

2 State sovereignty as to official language use

3 Private Freedom of language

4 The crucial great divide between public and private spheres

IV Classification of the language policies of the EU Member States

1 A patchwork of monolingualisms

2 Single official language policy

3 Single official language policy with territorial exceptions

4 Multiple official language policy

V Summing up: what is language law?

 

PART II Language law of the European Union

I Historical overview

1 The European Coal and Steel Community (1951)

2 The European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community (1957)

3 The European Union (1992)

4 Some concluding remarks: pragmatism rules

II Aims of EU language policy

1 Language equality and non-discrimination

2 European integration and mobility

3 The integration aim in the case law of the Court of Justice

4 Linguistic diversity

5 Protection of linguistic minorities

III Scope of EU language policy

1 The scope of EU language policy is comparable to that of national policies

2 Limits of the scope of EU language policy

IV EU public language policy

1 EU Treaty languages

2 EU official and working languages

3 Restricted language regimes and practices

4 Special language regime of the Court of Justice of the European Union

5 The area of freedom, security and justice

V EU private language policy

1 Regulatory linguistic requirements as to the free movement of goods

2 The situation of migrating professionals in the EU internal market

3 Certified translations of documents

4 Broadcasting licences

5 Other preferential language policies

 

PART III A ten-point roadmap for a more coherent EU language policy

I The curse of languages: a democratic debate is long overdue

II Honesty is the best policy: transparency on the extent of multilingualism

III Some languages are more equal than others: provide for a legal basis and… embrace English officially?

IV Get real: EU multilingualism policy is self-defeating

V The multilingualism paradox as to the law in 24 languages

VI A clearer demarcation of competences between the EU and its Member States

VII The protection of linguistic minorities

VIII The issue of social cohesion and the importance of (a common) language

IX The paradox of multilingual EU Member States

X EU language policy needs a coherent framework

 

Epilogue: Coming to grips with the past

 

Bibliography

Table of cases

Index

 

ISBN:
9789462513754
Practice area:
Public International Law, European Law
Author:
Stefaan van der Jeught
Edition:
2
Number of pages:
324
Release date:
27 maart 2025
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