<P> The English language in Europe, as a native language, is mainly spoken in the United Kingdom and Ireland . Outside of these states, it has a special status in the Crown dependencies (Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey), Gibraltar (one of the British Overseas Territories) and Malta . In the Kingdom of the Netherlands, English has an official status as a regional language on the isles of Saba and Sint Eustatius . In other parts of Europe, English is spoken mainly by those who have learnt it as a second language, but also, to a lesser extent, natively by some expatriates from some countries in the English - speaking world . </P> <P> The English language is the de facto official language of England, the sole official language of Gibraltar and one of the official languages of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Malta, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey and the European Union . </P>

European countries that speak english as a first language
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