do they speak English or French? do they have interpreters?
2006-12-08 18:42:06 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The official languages of the European Union, as stipulated in EEC Council: Regulation No 1 determining the languages to be used by the European Economic Community of 1958-04-15 (as amended) [2], are:
Czech
Danish
Dutch
English
Estonian
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hungarian
Italian
Latvian
Lithuanian
Maltese
Polish
Portuguese
Slovak
Slovene
Spanish
Swedish
Further languages are due to become official languages of the European Union:
On January 1, 2007:
Bulgarian
Irish [3] [4]
Romanian
All languages of the EU are also working languages.[5] Documents which a Member State or a person subject to the jurisdiction of a Member State sends to institutions of the Community may be drafted in any one of the official languages selected by the sender. The reply shall be drafted in the same language. Regulations and other documents of general application shall be drafted in the twenty official languages. The Official Journal of the European Union shall be published in the twenty official languages.
Legislation and documents of major public importance or interest are produced in all 20 official languages, but that accounts for a minority of the institutions' work. Other documents (e.g. communications with the national authorities, decisions addressed to particular individuals or entities and correspondence) are translated only into the languages needed. For internal purposes the EU institutions are allowed by law to choose their own language arrangements. The European Commission, for example, conducts its internal business in three languages, English, French and German, and goes fully multilingual only for public information and communication purposes. The European Parliament, on the other hand, has Members who need working documents in their own languages, so its document flow is fully multilingual from the outset.[6]
2006-12-09 05:03:50 · answer #1 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The European Union has eleven official languages. These languages are used at the meetings of the official bodies and all European legislation has to be published in all of them. The Union has to communicate with the authorities and the public in the Member States in their own languages.
The EU has its own section dedicated to conference interpreting. It is called the Joint interpreting and conference service. This Conference interpreting service deals exclusively with oral communication: rendering a message from one language into another, naturally and fluently, adopting the delivery, tone and conviction of the speaker and speaking in the first person.
2006-12-09 02:55:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are three languages used - English, French and Germain. Officials do use interpretters (with ear pieces as the previous person stated). They actually employ over 4000 interpretters. Because of the cost of this, there has been so argument that
English should be made the single working language.
2006-12-09 02:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by Nella 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They have 20 languages. And people do wear ear pieces with people interpreting into their languages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_the_European_Union
(Added): Yeah, when it's not meetings or for public information, they use just English, French, and German.
2006-12-09 02:57:36 · answer #4 · answered by Vic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are interpreters for all languages like at the UN
2006-12-09 02:50:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
every one has a ear piece with an interpreter speaking to them through it. but it still all Bull****. Thanks now, mind how ya go.
2006-12-09 02:47:35 · answer #6 · answered by slartibardfast_uk 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋