@lmur,
lmur wrote:Assuming there will have to be some sort of vote to remove English, I imagine Ireland will vote to keep it on the basis that most of our members cannot speak Irish Gaelic fluently.
Both Ireland aas well as Malta chose "their" languages as official languages - because the UK had chosen English.
It seems more than impossible that one of these countries or both agree with 25 other countries to remove English as official language.
But eevn if all 27 countries would agree to remove English - they still needed the English translation department - not only for official, protocol reasons but to translate rules, laws, press reports etc.
(As an aside: the language department of the German Foreign Office has several hundred employees, all with a master degree.)