EU Language day

I was very interested to read in the Greek press that 9 out of 10 children at primary school learn a foreign language at a level where they can actually hold a conversation. However only 2 out of 10 think that they are proficient in the language they learn with 4 in 10 making an effort afterwards to improve on what they learn. The stats were released yesterday by Eurostat to coincide with The EU Language Day. Greece is doing well on this but not Britain so much which is a shame as we now live in a European Federation??