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...presumptuous of them to demand everything at once." Countered Kohl, who speaks neither English nor French: "Whether one likes to hear it or not, it ((German)) is now the most widely spoken language in the E.C." While that may be a slight exaggeration, what the Germans call their Sprachraum (linguistic space) does include more than 100 million people in Germany and in potential E.C. members Austria and Switzerland, plus millions more in Eastern Europe whose main second language is German...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Europe The New Germany Flexes Its Muscles | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

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