French Upset Over ‘More English’ Proposal

But supporters of the proposal, which won initial approval in the lower house of Parliament on Thursday, said the lack of English was a major factor in France’s declining competitiveness in the world. The left-wing newspaper Libération printed its cover page in English and urged the French in an editorial to “stop behaving as if they were the last representatives of a besieged Gallic village.” </P>“Teaching in English,” read a banner headline on the front page. “Let’s do

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