Brits are ‘missing out on EU jobs’
"(Language skills are) really important if you want to influence what is going on. The balance of the use of language (in EU institutions) has been in favour of English, but to understand what people are thinking about you also have to get a sense of them and how they see the world."
Michael Shackleton, UK Office of the European Parliament.
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