Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The constellation of languages in Europe: an -- inclusive approach -- Section I. Official state languages -- English as lingua franca in Europe today -- French and France: language and state -- Polish in Poland and abroad -- Language constellations across the Baltic -- Republics: a comparative review -- Section II. Regional minority languages -- Catalan in Spain -- Frisian in the Netherlands -- Hungarian as a minority language -- Sámi languages in the Nordic countries and -- Russia -- Section III. Immigrant minority languages -- New minority languages in the United -- Kingdom -- Immigrant minority languages in Sweden -- Immigrant languages in Italy -- Immigrant minority languages in Europe: -- cross-national and cross-linguistic perspectives -- Backmatter