ECONOMICS
ECONOMIC GROWTH
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NAFTA
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EU
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NCAA
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OPEC
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Detailed explanation-1: -Today the European Union (EU) is home to 497 million people from diverse ethnic, cultural and linguistic backgrounds. The Union is the only organization that unifies so many different countries, more precisely 23 official languages and 27 European nations (Zimmer 2007, p.
Detailed explanation-2: -The EU has 24 official languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish.
Detailed explanation-3: -Switzerland. Switzerland has 3 official languages: German, French and Italian.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most European countries have just one official language. Some actually have none (which is the case of the United Kingdom, where English is de facto official-used by the government and courts-but not de jure official), and a few have two or more, the “winner” being Switzerland, which has four.
Detailed explanation-5: -The majority of languages spoken in Europe belong to the family of Indo-European languages and within this family, 94% of speakers belong to the Romance, Germanic and Slavic branches. Five of these languages have over 50 million native speakers in Europe: French, Italian, German, English and Russian.