QUOTE Much the way as Norway, Ireland, Finland, Iceland and a good few others I imagine - regardless of how many people sneer at their incompetent football teams, 'half-baked politicians', and 'half-trained monkeys'. How does Malta survive?
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They go out of their way to speak foreign and more widely spoken languages.  Show me a Dane, a Nederlander, an Icelander who doesn't speak English and who wants to practice same at every given opportunity.  Not so with the Catalans.  QED.