L'Europe multilingue - enjeux et risque

The main goal of the study to analyse the linguistic tableau of multilingual Europe in the framework of the chances of employment for young Hungarian professionals. Today the European Union has 500 million inhabitants and recognizes 23 official languages. Howewer sixty more languages are used besides the above mentioned 23 ones. EU has 23 official languages only because some languages (like French, Greek, German) are in used in more than one country. 56% of European citizens claim that they know a second language apart from their mother tongue, but almost half of them can speak only their mother tongue. We analyse the Hungarian as well as the English specifics, especially the attitude of native English speakers to learning foreign languages. Also, we are going to examine the situation of the countries with neo-Latin languages, and attempt to answer the question: why is it so difficult to learn at least one foreign language in these countries? We shall attempt to survey the effects and contributions of linguistic competence, regarding economy. What kind of relationship exists between the economic competitiveness and the linguistic strategy of a company or a society?