Britain has signed up to the official EU goal of teaching all schoolchildren two non-native European languages, but is resolutely monolingual.

英国已与欧盟签订协议，以使所有小学生学习两门英语之外的欧洲语言，可现在这沦为空谈。

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English, one of the 24 official languages of the EU, is very much spoken in Brussels and in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

英语，是欧盟24种官方语言之一，在布鲁塞尔和欧洲议会所在地斯特拉斯堡都非常盛行。

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EURid works with over 850 accredited registrars and provides support in the 23 official EU languages.

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EU's 20 official languages. (The cost of translation makes getting a patent in Europe far more expensive than in, say, America.) This would have created broad patent-protection and cut costs for inventors.

ECONOMIST: The EU's attempt to harmonise patent law is in a mess