The arrival of more countries favouring English will threaten to render French almost as marginal as German.An increased use of English within the EU institutions will mean an increased use of it in the ministries of member states, where officials spend much of their time working on EU-related matters.
Anybody who works on EU projects as a living will tell you that in terms of financial reporting and legal issues, they are incredibly complicated beasts, as the information you have to provide as a grant receiver is very detailed.
Schrems argues it's simply not viable for individuals to take big tech giants to court to try to enforce their privacy rights, so thinks there's a gap in the regulatory landscape for an expert organization to work on EU citizen's behalf.
Kati Piri, a Dutch Socialist MEP, who works on EU-Turkey relations in the European parliament, did not share this optimism.
The Sonochemistry centre at Coventry University is one of a group of organisations working on an EU FP7 funded project (SONO) to develop a new technology for producing antimicrobial textiles.
One person I speak to, from west Wales, has spent their entire adult life studying or working on an EU-funded programme across several European countries, and is furious that despite this their mother didn't even bother to vote.
If sugar is addictive, it is probably a behavioural addiction rather than an addiction to the substance itself, said Dr John Menzies, research fellow at the Centre for Integrative Physiology at the University of Edinburgh, who is working on an EU-funded project called Neurofast.
Nigel Lewis, chief executive of AbilityNet has been working on an EU-funded project called BrainAble, which has developed a way of how we can use our brains to 'drive' a PC.
Imposing work permits on EU citizens would, however, breach EU free movement rules and so likely lead to highly restricted access to Europe's single market for goods and services.
The general view of experts is that the bill has not just been badly thought out, but will complicate things mainly because the European Commission is working on an overlapping EU regulation based on recommendations in the Liikanen Report.
Debonair and well-spoken, Thae Yong Ho has over ten years experience working on UK and EU-related issues as a diplomat.
