The EU Embraces The Language Of The Empire

[Favonius Cornelius]

HELSINKI: Sniffy classicists, who have always looked down at the European Union as a pale imitation of their beloved Roman Empire, will be delighted. Having pinched the Roman idea of a single currency, the EU has now decided to embrace Latin.

 

Finland, which is running the EU for the next six months, is to publish weekly news bulletins in Latin on an EU website. Leaders of the Unio Europaea, who have had a wretched year grappling with the Constitutio Europaea, will be reaching for their dictionaries at their next shindig in Bruxellae.

 

 

 

Sydney Morning Herald

[Gaius Octavius]

I don't know if it still exists, but a while back there was a Finnish shortwave program broadcast in Latin.

[Q Valerius Scerio]

They've done this before last time they were President of the EU. Right on for them!

[Silentium]

HELSINKI: Sniffy classicists, who have always looked down at the European Union as a pale imitation of their beloved Roman Empire, will be delighted. Having pinched the Roman idea of a single currency, the EU has now decided to embrace Latin.

 

Finland, which is running the EU for the next six months, is to publish weekly news bulletins in Latin on an EU website. Leaders of the Unio Europaea, who have had a wretched year grappling with the Constitutio Europaea, will be reaching for their dictionaries at their next shindig in Bruxellae.

 

 

 

Sydney Morning Herald

Interesting =)