Le Soir reports that the liberal Belgian representative believes that this “invitation to act as an informer” is in breach of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Belgian constitution. The Brussels daily evokes the anger of Francophone politicians, who deplore:

... the linguistic intransigence of Flemish authorities (Grimbergen is one of many cases) that, in their bid to combat a decline in the use of Dutch in municipalities around Brussels, have resorted to measures that are anti-constitutional. Article 30 of the country’s constitution stipulates that outside of matters involving public administration and the law, the choice of language is determined by individual preference.

What appears to be a majority of the members of the Flanders regional parliament supports the measure established by Marleen Mertens, Grimbergen’s CD&V burgomeister. In an interview with Le Soir, she argues that the initiative is “absolutely normal” :

If I travel to Wallonia, I use French when shopping. The same applies in Flanders. It’s a language exercise. It encourages people to use Dutch to facilitate their integration.

This year, the Szekler National Council asked that Hungarian be declared an official language in the counties of Hargita and Covasna, where the Hungarian-speaking population is particularly strong. The proposal has angered deputies from the far right, but Marco Bela, leader of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (UDMR) and also a member of Romania's government, begs to differ. He believes such a move would simply "recognise the fact that Hungarian is spoken as much as Romanian in territories where the Szekler minority represents more than 20% of the population" or some two million people, reports Gândul.

The two heads of State were the “wrong people in the wrong place”, opines the Slovak daily Pravda, and all they did there was “repackage the problem” without getting at its “core”, which lies in Slovakia: “The lies about the language law are not coming from Hungary, but from the SMK” – i.e. the “Hungarian Coalition Party” that represents the Hungarian-speaking minority in Slovakia. Nonetheless, the Bratislava-based daily urges its government to take a “generous stance” on the Hungarian minority.

The Hungarian daily Népszabadság, for its part, is gratified to find that “Hungary’s diplomatic efforts to bump the matter into the international arena have borne fruit”, though it airs doubts about Bratislava’s political will to comply with European demands.

In reply, La Repubblica has reviewed the state of the 6,000 dialects that testify to Italy's fragmented history. Based on a study by statistics institute Istat, it shows that "the exclusive use of dialect has sensibly decreased over time. From 32 per cent in 1988 to 16 in 2006, almost half", notwithstanding ministers of the League’s efforts to revive them in so-called “Padania” – the name the party has proposed as a possible denomination for an autonomous Northern Italy. Nobel prize winning playwright Dario Fo calls the League’s proposal "nonsense". The author of several plays in dialect is quoted as saying that what the League really wants is to send “teachers from southern Italy away using a dialect story". Rather than the League’s standard racial one.