{"id":54914,"date":"2016-06-28T01:00:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T01:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ft_is_this_a_chance_to_finally_establish_french_as_the_eus_main_official_la\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T01:00:51","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T01:00:51","slug":"ft_is_this_a_chance_to_finally_establish_french_as_the_eus_main_official_la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54914","title":{"rendered":"(FT) Is this a chance to finally establish French as the EU\u2019s main official language?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Could Brexit be an entr\u00c3\u00a9e for the French?<br \/>\nThat was the suggestion on Monday as French politicians wondered aloud whether a UK departure from the EU could be a chance to finally establish French as the EU\u2019s main official language.<br \/>\n\u201cEnglish can no longer be the third working language of the European Parliament,\u201d\u009d tweeted Jean-Luc M\u00c3\u00a9lenchon, a leftwing MEP and French presidential candidate. \u201cThe English language has no legitimacy in Brussels,\u201d\u009d said Robert M\u00c3\u00a9nard, mayor of the town of B\u00c3\u00a9ziers in southern France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/e70b5042-3c65-11e6-8716-a4a71e8140b0.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could Brexit be an entr\u00c3\u00a9e for the French? That was the suggestion on Monday as French politicians wondered aloud whether a UK departure from the EU could be a chance to finally establish French as the EU\u2019s main official language.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54914\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,199,168,200,144,151,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}