Multilinguismo e Plurilinguismo nella UE: una realtà in trasformazione , una opportunità per tutti.

European Motto ‘Unity in diversity’ means that Europeans are united in working together for common goals, and enriched by the continent’s many different cultures, traditions and languages. For this reason EU officially preserves cultural and linguistic diversity and promotes language learning. But European Language policies are also affected by the ‘State of the art’ of Europeans’ linguistic knowledge that seems to be addressed toward English as a language that can overcome difficulties in communications and assumes the role of ‘Lingua Franca’. The purpose of this paper is to analyse European policies on language diversity preservation and on plurilingualism promotion under several points of view: (i) the EU as multilingual international body, (ii) the preservation and promotion of plurilingualism, (iii) implementation of plurilingualism.