YOU ARE RIDICULOUS MR. JUNCKER!
Mr. Jean-Claude
Juncker declared at a conference that the English language is losing importance
in Europe: “Slowly, but surely English is losing importance in
Europe.” (in “Jornal
Económico” at http://www.jornaleconomico.sapo.pt/noticias/o-ingles-esta-a-perder-importancia-na-europa-diz-juncker-em-frances-154821) It is clear the spite in which the EU’s chief
bureaucrat holds the United Kingdom. However, he chose an absurd sting to get
at the UK and thus he covered himself in ridicule.
Jean-Claude Juncker, a ridiculous man.
The English
language is on a roll for decades and its influence, use and influence
increases by the day and that is not going to change with Brexit. Mr. Juncker
seems to think that his beloved and decaying union is the centre of the world,
but it is not.
He also seems
to believe that the use of English is tied to Brussels’ whims, but it is not.
English is the common language almost anywhere you go. I got to teach to
classes with students from 6 different nationalities and languages and ENGLISH
was the ONLY common means of communication. Whatever else I would speak would
be a dead end to a part of the class. Not even Latin would make the trick.
And we can move from empirical evidence to statistical
facts: of students in lower secondary school, outside Great Britain, learning a foreign language, 97% are studying English, 34% French and 23% German. Furthermore,
79% of primary school students are
learning English; a meagre 4% study French. (data from “The Economist” at http://www.economist.com/news/europe/21721861-despite-jean-claude-junckers-joke-anglophones-should-rest-easy-britain-leaving-eu-its?cid1=cust/ddnew/n/n/n/2017059n/owned/n/n/nwl/n/n/eu/Daily_Dispatch/email&etear=dailydispatch How about that Mr. Juncker? How much more
clownish can you get?
Mr. Juncker
frequently speaks nonsense and engages in strange and dubious behaviour. Being
spiteful and resentful apparently have made him worse, but that will do nothing
to advance whatever negotiations stands he may want to engage in. Being ridiculous tends to make you look
neither credible, nor reliable. You will eventually be scorned and set aside.
And you are really ridiculous Mr. Juncker.
P.S. Another ridiculous episode by Juncker, dating back
to 2012:
Juncker foi o
mais criativo e nebuloso, dizendo que os jornalistas lhe colocaram questões num
sítio escuro, onde não se ouvia (??) bem e que por isso não teria respondido
bem. Enfim, uma declaração pueril, bizarra e até hilariante, se imaginarmos
Juncker encurralado num canto escuro por ávidos jornalistas. Registe-se que vi
o Senhor Juncker proferir as primeiras declarações, o local não parecia nada
escuro, o senhor falava bem à vontade e com vontade.
“TRÊS TROCA TINTAS”, 7th December 2012 at
P.P.S. Yet another example of his clumsiness, this one
much more recent:
So, one can only imagine the shock the first group
must have felt when Jean-Claude Juncker, the archetype of
Euro-federalist-Brussels insider-EU fundamentalist, declared that France will NOT be punished for exceeding
the 3% budget deficit ceiling, because…. It is France: The European Commission has given France leeway on fiscal rules
"because it is France," the president of the EU executive Jean-Claude
Juncker said (…).
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