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Background The apron (Zingel asper) is a small, nocturnal bottom-dwelling fish listed in Annex II of the Habitats Directive. It only occurs in the Rhône river basin. It is about 15 to 20 cm in size and thrives in clear, oxygen-rich waters with clean gravel bottoms. The apron's behaviour is sedentary and territorial. At daytime, it remains hidden among r ...

Individual multilingualism (a person's capacity to communicate in several languages) iscrucial for the development of the EU. Europe has several language traditions whichtransmit rich, age-old cultures, but mainly comprises monolingual groups. It isimpossible to envisage European integration based on the gradual move to a singlelanguage, which would involve suppressing or marginalising the languag ...