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Suggesting a classification of multilingualism, this paper in honour of my contact linguistic colleague and friend Bates Hoffer presents the problems confronting a European language policy in four propositions. The terms of the fourth proposition–the Europeanisation of language policy–will be examined more thoroughly in order to scrutinise conflict avoidance strategies which have already proven useful in multilingual countries and which may yet serve as a starting point for a discussion on how to neutralise conflicts all over Europe. The subsequent conclusions will try to demonstrate the extent to which contact linguistics may contribute to a politico-linguistic conflict analysis within an extended Europe. It would be like carrying coals to Newcastle if, at the beginning of the second millennium, one were to plead for multilingualism from a Brussels perspective. In Brussels, multilingualism and multiculturality are everyday phenomena that can be encountered in innumerable situations. What is new, however, is that the inevitable interdependence of politics, economy, media culture and language has been acknowledged in the official language planning of the EU that itself has created a politico-linguistic instrument by founding a "ministry " (Directorate General XXII) which–to some extent sucessfully–tried t