The french still don’t get it, do they?
No one is going to switch to LESS english now that the UK has left. Quite the opposite.
The reason why fewer people speak french at the institutions today is down to, primarily, the fact that most people don’t learn that much french anymore.
AND IT’S COMPLETELY UNFAIR TO ASK EVERYONE ELSE TO WORK IN THEIR THIRD LANGUAGE SO THAT CODDLED FRANCOPHONES CAN CONTINUE WORKING IN THEIR MOTHER TONGUE
Now that the UK is out pretty much everyone is speaking a second language.
With the exception of the francophones. Who will speak english occasionally, but can always fall back on french.
Who like to pretend this conversation is about ‘linguistic diversity’ when, really, it’s just about their bruised national ego and unwillingness to do what everyone else does and work in a language that’s not their own.
If this conversation really were about linguistic diversity, we’d be talking about addind italian or spanish or even polish or any other eastern european language to the basket of working languages. Not about more french.