European lingua Franca - why not German?
There was this article on DW (which is short for “Deutsche Welle” - which is the international German radio and TV station - a bit like BBC but totally different..). That article (in English) points out that German is the single language mostly spoke in the EU (with 25%) compared to French, Italian and English with 15% each. Now the German government argues that there is no obvious reason why English should become the official language for EU documents.
I say “good on ya” - but then I am a translator - and even if I might not get more jobs from the EU, I might still be able to fill some of the gaps that those translators who do the EU stuff leave behind.