Language issues have been of importance to the national identity of the countries in the European Union for a long time. Countries such as Spain and Denmark have recognizable interests and ways of dealing with language questions. In this book, I examine the language policies that result from the promulgation of linguistic rights in European Union Law (the 2004 Draft Constitution and the Treaty of Lisbon) and the constitutions and legal statutes of selected countries in the European Union (Spain and Denmark). This work began as a side project that entailed a critical contemplation of the language rights of individuals and groups in the constitutions of the world (Faingold, 2004) and the 2004 draft of the European Union constitution (Faingold, 2007) more than a decade ago. Throughout my academic career, my professional fields of research and interest have included bilingualism, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, and the biographical study of immigrants and exiles. Where the topic of language rights in the European Union was concerned, I had to rely on my own observations of the European political scene and on reading newspapers, magazines, and the works of scholars and activists.