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Following Johannes Singhammer, deputy president of the Bundestag, English should lose dominance as working language of EU post-Brexit

Berlin/Brussels (dpa) - Following Britain‘s vote to leave the European Union, English should lose its dominance as the working language of the bloc, a German politician said.

"When Britain leaves the EU, there is no longer any reason for the German or French language to be discriminated against," Johannes Singhammer, who is deputy president of the Bundestag, the German lower house of parliament, told Saturday‘s Der Spiegel magazine.

Instead of cutting the German language service, which has some 100 translators, by 10 per cent as planned, the European Commission should cut the English department, which has 130 employees.
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