The future of Europe will not insult national memories and linguistic patrimonies but will draw from the cultural treasures, the citizens' responsibility and the policies of solidarity the strength to build a radiant community of equal, united yet diverse peoples. In cultural and linguistic matters, the rights of nations are yet to be invented. As the only centre of power where one can truly speak of cultural diversity as an essential part of its identity, it is the only such centre that is able to apply this diversity to itself, thus guaranteeing its survival in the rest of the world. Protecting today the lesser spoken languages in Europe is the only hope for tomorrow for many oppressed cultures around the planet. We wish a humanist Europe, where everyone has the same chance to have its voice heard.
Monoculture impoverishes the minds as it does for the soils.
Clear principles have therefore to be established, reconciling everybody's right to express oneself and receive any information from the Union in their own language, with yet a limitation to a reasonable number, only for technical reunions, of worling languages taken as targets of translations and interpretations. The due respect for every language will impose to treat them all in a fair way, not excluding any from all the institutions and to choose in unison and on objective criteria the target languages selected for each and every body or directorate. Linguistic pluralism and diversity are not an obstacle to the free circulation of men, ideas, good and services, as would like to suggest some objective allies, consciously or not, of the dominant language and culture. Indeed, standardization and hegemony are the obstacle to the free blossoming of individuals, societies and the information economy, main source of tomorrow's jobs. On the contrary, the respect for languages is the last hope for Europe to get closer to the citizens, an objective always claimed and almost never put into practice.