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8th October 1999, 00:06

PeterWolf

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(Brussels) Russian has become the most popular language across the European continent, according to a survey by Eurostat. Adding the European Union's 286 million citizens to Eastern Europe's 269 million, 35 percent of the total understand Russian, compared to English at 28 percent, German at 20 percent and French at 17 percent. The citizens of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg were the most polylingual. Coming in as the least useful European languages: Portuguese, Greek and Finnish.

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