If Maltese is an EU language, why not Irish?
Mr Yates complains about the amount of money which will be spent employing Irish speakers as translators and in publishing European treaties and documents in Irish because he regards the language as a dead tongue belonging only to fanatics and academics.
Yet Mr Yates makes no objection to the status of Maltese as a ‘working language’ of the EU, even though there are more people speaking Irish than Maltese.
