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The European Union’s remarkable growth performance relative to the United States (www.bruegel.org)

submitted 10 months ago by Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to c/europe@feddit.de

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The article chooses to take a metric that you usually do not see much: GDP per employee and per hours worked, at purchasing power standards

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[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago (12 children)

There is free trade, yes, but we still speak different languages and moving to work between countries is still not as easy as moving between US states.

The language is a big one. English seems to become the lingua franca, but the proficiency level among the population differs a lot from one area to the other, and also brings the question of the local culture and heritage.

I was thinking the other day that just even a language such as Interlingua (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua), that can be easily learned for all speakers of Romance languages, would help a lot in collaborating between populations of neighboring countries. On the other side of the spectrum, languages like Latvian might go extinct due to the massive emigration: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SM.POP.NETM?locations=LV

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I love Interlingua, as a Romance speaker I find it awesome, but after having consulted with some Germanic and Slavic friends it seems pretty unintelligible to them. Unfortunate, cause it's so easy and effective for us.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Definitely, it's nice! I feel like there could be some similar initiatives across family languages

Interlingua for Romance languages
another one for Germanic languages
another one for Slavic languages

That would reduce the language burden at a European level, and still kind of preserve the local culture and language? Seems more balanced than having English as the one lingua franca

[–] Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree, it would be great! Also definitely more efficient than the 24 official languages we currently have, lol.

I guess Hungarians and Finns wouldn't be too pleased by this division though. Hehe.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well, they can make their own common language if they want, that would still reduce the number of Finno-Urgic languages by 50% ha ha (not sure about the language group name, my memory is blurry)

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

Hungarian and Finnish are far enough, the Finno-Ugric group is as diverse as the Indoeuropean one, it was just mostly wiped out in the Great Migrations.

Hungarian is actually Ugric IIRC, and it is as close to Finnish as English is to Russian. The grammar is similar in some ways, but I don't think there is substantial shared similar vocabulary.

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