{"id":3180,"date":"2010-07-05T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2010-07-05T17:59:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T16:59:17","slug":"conseil-dunion-europeene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3180","title":{"rendered":"Conseil de l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to work for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consilium.europa.eu\/\"><em>Conseil de l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne<\/em><\/a> (Council of the European Union, aka Consilium) or other EU institutions, you have to take the entry examinations in a second language. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/eu\/7866200\/Britain-in-language-battle-over-EU-civil-service-exams.html\">an article<\/a> I came across today, the British government believes this is unfair for Brits and has arranged that from next year the pre-selection tests for EU civil service exams can be taken in the candidate&#8217;s first language. <\/p>\n<p>Has anybody considered trying to encourage more Brits to learn foreign languages, or is that just wishful thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to work for the Conseil de l\u2019Union europ\u00e9enne (Council of the European Union, aka Consilium) or other EU institutions, you have to take the entry examinations in a second language. According to an article I came across today, the British government believes this is unfair for Brits and has arranged that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}