Germany?s Finance Minister Wolfgang Sch?uble feels sorry for anyone who has to deal with his English because he has a poor command of the language, according to an interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung.
By his own admission, however, he is not someone who has a good command of English. That gives him something in common with other German politicians, such as European Union Commissioner G?nther Oettinger and Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle, whose poor English has often been the subject of jokes, the paper said.
?Badly spoken English is however the most spoken language in the world,? Sch?uble joked in the interview.
The finance minister remembered when he was in his previous job as interior minister he made a suggestion at the European Council in Brussels to forgo interpreters in favor of requiring everyone to speak English.
Nicholas Sarkozy, the French interior minister at the time, was not in favor of that, fearing that holding the meetings in English would give the British an advantage.
?I told him that it was actually a much larger disadvantage for them because we would destroy their language,? Sch?uble said.
The Local/mw
Source: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20121223-46947.html
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