English is the most commonly used language in the EU25 (*)
51% speak it either as mother tongue (13%) or as a foreign language (38%)
according to the "Special Eurobarometer 243" of the European Commission with the title "Europeans and their Languages" Feb. 2006
(*) thus does not include Bulgarian and Romanian polling stats, only of the 25 EU member states in 2006).
The corresponding numbers for German and French are:
German 32% (18% + 14%)
French 26% (12% + 14%)
English 51% (13% + 38%)
Note: There are 23 official languages in the #EU (with some special provisions re Irish and Maltese)
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