I already speak English * and I can use it to communicate with people all over teh EU who also already speak it.
Why do we all need to learn a new common language? We already have a perfectly serviceable one.
In any case, if we're going to go for a different common language then that really should be my native Greek because it's the language of the country who gave birth to European civilisation, and it was already the lingua franca of the people of Europe in ancient times, so there (i.e. everyone in Europe will have an argument to support their own language being the new common tongue).
Why do we all need to learn a new common language? We already have a perfectly serviceable one.
In any case, if we're going to go for a different common language then that really should be my native Greek because it's the language of the country who gave birth to European civilisation, and it was already the lingua franca of the people of Europe in ancient times, so there (i.e. everyone in Europe will have an argument to support their own language being the new common tongue).
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* And French and Italian and my native Greek