diff --git a/config-templates/config.php b/config-templates/config.php
index e0f08ce7436865c30b356a68607500424846e54a..8546299ec051b0013020fa5fc6b627c62ecf58a9 100644
--- a/config-templates/config.php
+++ b/config-templates/config.php
@@ -154,14 +154,6 @@ $config = array (
 	'language.available'	=> array('en', 'no', 'nn', 'se', 'fi', 'da', 'sv', 'de', 'es', 'fr', 'nl', 'lb', 'hr', 'hu', 'sl'),
 	'language.default'		=> 'en',
 	
-	/* 
-	 * Leave the language.base to 'en' (english). The language base MUST be set
-	 * to a language that contains 100% of the strings available. It is used as
-	 * a fallback language if not the selected, nor the default have a translation
-	 * for a specific string.
-	 */
-	'language.base'			=> 'en',
-	
 	/*
 	 * Which theme directory should be used? The base is fallback (leave it to default).
 	 */
diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
index e89f6849b0b1da35dad1890f5f39733fd531895a..0aee736acda82586eb491ab36c2d5347587536d7 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/XHTML/Template.php
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_XHTML_Template {
 	 * Returns the language base (from configuration)
 	 */
 	private function getBaseLanguage() {
-		return $this->configuration->getValue('language.base', 'en');
+		return 'en';
 	}
 	
 	/**