Translation at the European Commission - a history
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Translation at the European Commission – a history
ISBN 978-92-79-08849-0
Translation at the European
Commission – a history
European
Commission
Translation at the European
Commission – a history
European
Commission
Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union
Freephone number (*):
00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11
(*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed.
More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu).
Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication.
The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or views of the European Commission
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2010
ISBN 978-92-79-08849-0 doi: 10.2782/16417
© European Communities, 2010
Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.
Printed in Spain
Printed on white chlorine-free paper
Acknowledgments
In early 2008 the European Commission’s Directorate-General for
Translation decided to take stock of its first half-century of work. To put this into effect we consulted numerous sources of documentation, including of course the Commission’s historical archives, and spoke to a hundred or so former and current members of the translation service and to representatives of other Directorates-General.
While writing the first draft we realised that this retrospective might be of interest to a wider audience than the Institution’s staff alone. That is how this publication came about.
Our sincere thanks go to the archive team for its support and to our colleagues for their memories, their documents and their photographs.
Without their help it would have been impossible to tell this captivating story. This study is based essentially on information taken from historical and current Commission documents,
ç
Translation at the European Commission – a history
ISBN 978-92-79-08849-0
Translation at the European
Commission – a history
European
Commission
Translation at the European
Commission – a history
European
Commission
Europe Direct is a service to help you find answers to your questions about the European Union
Freephone number (*):
00 800 6 7 8 9 10 11
(*) Certain mobile telephone operators do not allow access to 00 800 numbers or these calls may be billed.
More information on the European Union is available on the Internet (http://europa.eu).
Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication.
The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or views of the European Commission
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2010
ISBN 978-92-79-08849-0 doi: 10.2782/16417
© European Communities, 2010
Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.
Printed in Spain
Printed on white chlorine-free paper
Acknowledgments
In early 2008 the European Commission’s Directorate-General for
Translation decided to take stock of its first half-century of work. To put this into effect we consulted numerous sources of documentation, including of course the Commission’s historical archives, and spoke to a hundred or so former and current members of the translation service and to representatives of other Directorates-General.
While writing the first draft we realised that this retrospective might be of interest to a wider audience than the Institution’s staff alone. That is how this publication came about.
Our sincere thanks go to the archive team for its support and to our colleagues for their memories, their documents and their photographs.
Without their help it would have been impossible to tell this captivating story. This study is based essentially on information taken from historical and current Commission documents,
Bibliography: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2007 Coulmas, F., A language policy for the European Community: Prospects and Quandries, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin-New York, 1991. Conseil de la langue française, Quebec, 1985. collection «Politique Linguistique» n° 1, Honoré Champion, Paris, 1993. Champion-Slatkine, Paris-Geneva, 1994. St Jerome Publishing, Manchester, 2002.