ABSTRACT
The European Union (EU)'s language policies are facilitating the localisation of the 'global English' project, its products and processes. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. These statements reveal something of the complexity of analysing language policy in historical and current processes of greater European and transatlantic integration. Empirical study of the factors determining language policies can elucidate in any given context whether linguistic imperialism is in force. The government of Slovakia used the reflection period after the rejection of the draft constitutional treaty by France, Ireland, and the Netherlands to convene a National Convention on the EU with broad participation. The deputy Prime Minister, Dusan caplovic, wrote on 26 March 2007 to the foreign ministers of all member and candidate states, and to EU commissioners, arguing for an intergovernmental study of language policy issues in the EU system to be established.
