Word on the street is that a simple file modification will bring out the english.
But, as I keep telling folks: unless you are German, Czech or Slovak, or you plan on building missions or mods, you're probably better off waiting for the "main release":
1. with the OFP release, major functionality was added after the initial release. V. 1.0 (europe) lacked many features that v. 1.20 added; and v. 1.46 (final before resistance) was quite an improvement over that.
2. people will be ironing missions and mods.
3. You really don't want to play with a bunch of Germans, do you?
then again, Morphicon is distributing to Austria and Switzerland, so I'll probably have to get that.