It hides in Brussels more than you think, even in the EU’s motto
Latin is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Europe’s next common language.
Isn’t it a dead language carved into Roman statues, only preserved in Vatican encyclicals and remembered mainly by traumatised adults who still wake up sweating over their Latin homework, rosa, rosae?
A new pan-European movement called Via Nova wants to revive Latin to give Europeans a shared spoken language with historical weight, one that, in its words, carries “civilisational baggage”.
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