Fidrmuc, Jan; Ginsburgh, Victor; Weber, Schlomo - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007
large number of official languages (currently 23) hinders communication and imposes substantial financial and legal costs … official languages in the EU. Using the results of a 2005 Eurobarometer survey of languages in the EU 27, we first derive the … sets of languages that minimize aggregate linguistic disenfranchisement of the Union’s citizens for any given number of …