After all, they have got a common everything else. I guess it's because the obvious language to use would be English, and they don't want to give Britain too much recognition. Could this be yet another reason for Britain to leave the EU?
I guess not...
But i'm from the Netherlands and they teach us, English, German and French as well on high school.
Spanish and Latin are given as well for the higher grade students, but the three above are the common ones.