The European Commissioner for Multilingualism, Leonard Orban, visited London earlier this week to present the ELAN report to UK journalists and discuss the link between multilingualism and the UK's ability to make the most of the single/global markets.

 

In his role, Commissioner Orban leads a High Level Group advising the EC on the next stage of it's policy development on multilingualism. Isabella Moore, Director of CILT, the National Centre for Languages is the UK representative of this 12-strong team and has presented a paper to the group on the results of the ELAN report. Her membership is in recognition of the UK’s strength in assessing the impact of a lack of language skills on individual business and the economy as a whole.

 

As part of his visit, the Commissioner also meet with Bill Rammell, Minister for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education and Lord Dearing, whose language review was published last month.

 

For further information about the Commissioner and his role visit http://ec.europa.eu/commission_barroso/orban/index_en.htm.