European Parliament 11 February 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION P-0398/02 by Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou (PPE-DE) to the Commission. The myth of Icarus and European cultural policy.

Article 2 of the French constitution provides that ‘the language of the Republic is French’, and the Constitutional Council has traditionally adopted a strict interpretation of this provision where regional or minority languages are concerned.