Our reluctance to learn other languages is not just arrogant: it's holding back the UK's economic performance
As François Hollande reshuffled the French cabinet last week, he was handed a report warning of hundreds of thousands more job losses. For a president grappling with political crisis and record unemployment it will have made grim bedtime reading after a day spent revamping his government for the second time this year.
The warning came from Jacques Attali, former special economic adviser to François Mitterrand, who had been asked by Hollande to look into ways the global reach of the French language could help drag the country out of its economic quagmire.
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