Contents -- Praefatio -- European integration and the idea of the national language -- Factors of constraints and freedom in setting a language policy for the European Community: A sociolinguistic approach -- Language conflicts in multilingual Europe - prospects for 1993 -- Linguistic minorities and language conflict in Europe: Learning from the Swiss experience -- Language politics and the new European identity -- Society, civilization, mentality: Prolegomena to a language policy for Europe -- Multilingualism in European Community meetings - a pragmatic approach -- Legal aspects of a language policy for the European Communities: Language risks, equal opportunities, and legislating a language -- The impact of European Community rules on linguistic policies of the Member States -- Reflections about minority languages in the European Community -- Linguistic "integration" and "identity" - the situation of migrant workers in the EC as a challenge and opportunity -- Educational language planning in England and Wales: Multicultural rhetoric and assimilationist assumptions -- The status of German and other languages in the European Community -- National and international dimensions of language policy when the minority language is a national language: The case of Irish in Ireland -- Linguistic nationalism and European unity: The case of Greece -- Italian in the European Community: An educational perspective on the national language and new language minorities -- Contributing authors -- Index of subjects -- Index of names.