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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9109

14 January 2006
Contents Publication in full By article 24 / 28
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/multilingualism
EU enlargement entails new interpreting needs - AIIC says trend towards “everything in English” leads to cultural impoverishment

Brussels, 13/01/2006 (Agence Europe) - With the last enlargement on 1 May 2004, the number of official European Union languages grew from 11 to 20. This number will soon be increasing with the addition of Bulgarian, Romanian, Croatian and, later, Turkish (perhaps even before Turkey actually joins the EU if the Cypriot problem is solved in the meantime). Such a situation has given rise to an enormous need for professional interpreters, a problem which is far from being resolved today as, in...

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