“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Every time new members have joined the EU, they have added to the number of official languages.
Official EU language since…
- 1958: Dutch, French, German, Italian
- 1973: Danish, English
- 1981: Greek
- 1986: Portuguese, Spanish
- 1995: Finnish, Swedish
- 2004: Czech, Estonian, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian
- 2007: Bulgarian, Irish, Romanian
- 2013: Croatian
Multilingualism
One of the EU’s founding principles is multilingualism.
This policy aims to:
- communicating with its citizens in their own languages
- protecting Europe’s rich linguistic diversity
- promoting language learning in Europe
(Από την επίσημη σελίδα της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης)
