Latin in the EU

When/if the European Union becomes a federal state (and it is going in that direction), there needs to be one official language, which is to be the state language and that for inter-ethnic communication.

Latin, being the official language of the Catholic church and the long-deceased Roman empire sounds like the ideal choice, since it's not the language of a nation currently existing (unlike English).

Latin is the foundation for many European languages (Italian, Spanish, French, Romanian). Its vocabulary should not be difficult to learn for any European. Its spelling, pronunciation and grammar are all easy as well.

What do you think?

>>5
Why do you believe China is going to take over the world? You can't believe it's double digit growth rates are anything but closing the technology gap, there are also many English speaking countries scattered across the world, in particular India and South Africa, while China's language is divided into mandarin, yue, wu and min making translation more expensive.
>>6
Spanish is a strong international language, if anything English is going to face competition from Spanish, not Chinese.