The EU has now expanded to countries – Bulgaria, Greece – where Latin did not play a major role historically. Even Romania, where the language is Romance, never employed Classical Latin as a language of learning (Greek and Church Slavonic were used instead). So, choosing Latin would seem unfair for the Orthodox world.
Latin did play a major role in Greece (which was ruled by Rome), though in a twist, as Adam Davidson of The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast (a real treasure) notes, Rome adopted Greek as its language of scholarship and aristocracy rather than imposing Latin on the Greeks.
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Nice. Looks like the EU, on the other hand, has missed the chance to make Latin its official language.
The EU has now expanded to countries – Bulgaria, Greece – where Latin did not play a major role historically. Even Romania, where the language is Romance, never employed Classical Latin as a language of learning (Greek and Church Slavonic were used instead). So, choosing Latin would seem unfair for the Orthodox world.
Latin did play a major role in Greece (which was ruled by Rome), though in a twist, as Adam Davidson of The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps podcast (a real treasure) notes, Rome adopted Greek as its language of scholarship and aristocracy rather than imposing Latin on the Greeks.
It shouldn’t be a problem if Latin was made into an official language, just not the official language.
Wouldn't want to be unfair to anyone. Perhaps Esperanto could be the official language
Interlingua is better.