HC Deb 17 March 1998 vol 308 c554W
Mr. Gordon Prentice

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will assess the advantages of promoting(a) Esperanto and (b) another language as the common official language of the European Union following the accession of the candidate member states; and if he will make a statement. [34745]

Mr. Doug Henderson

We do not consider it realistic to expect Member States of an enlarged European Union to agree on a common official language.

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