The article presents the main theses of Linguistic Justice from the Belgian philosopher and economist Philippe Van Parijs. The critique on Philippe Van Parijs’s position is centered on European identity and the learning of foreign languages. From the point of view of this article the idea of English as a European lingua franca is in contradiction with the importance of linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe. In addition to English as a foreign language, from a European perspective learning other languages than English can be considered as a constitutive moment of European identification.