EP Writing for Interactive Media Forum

French Foreign Minister calls for EU Internet "plurilinguism"

France's Foreign Minister Herve de Charette has complained to the president of the European Commission that there's too much English on the EC's web sites. According to a Reuters article, French President "Jacques Chirac has ordered a counter-offensive by La Francophonie, the group of French-speaking countries, to cut the lead taken by the English language on the Internet."