Debatten om svenskans ställning i Europa

Swedish EU-access in January 1995 triggered off a widespread linguistic debate on the futurę of the Swedish language in the united Europe. Despite its status as one of the Union's offcial languages, Swedish is often referred to as a minority language threatened by English. The debate mentions current language policies of the E U , linguistic and non-linguistic aspects of the influence of one language on another and presents a number of solutions strengthening the status of the weaker language. Both the arguments and proposals can be interesting as new accessions are awaited and the debatę on Europeanisation is present even in the Polish linguistics.