Press Release: Language teaching: 50% of young Europeans learn a foreign language from primary school onwards

The European network Eurydice in February 2005 published the first report, funded by the European Commission, setting out the key figures on language teaching in Europe. This report describes the state of affairs in 30 countries and highlights the increase in recent years in foreign language learning in primary education. Learning two foreign languages from a very early age was one of the recommendations of the Barcelona European Council in March 2002.