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06-12-2006
EU-23
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 New York, USA (NY Times): In January, Bulgaria and Romania will enter the union, and Gaelic will be formally recognized as one of Ireland’s official languages, alongside English. With Bulgaria’s entry another alphabet, Cyrillic, will go into use in Brussels along with the Latin and Greek alphabets. Moreover, Spain has obtained the right to have the regional languages Basque, Catalan and Galician recognized as “semiofficial” languages. This will bring the number of official union languages to 23. That means that all official documents, including 90,000 pages of past treaties and agreements, will have to be translated into all those languages. The cost is immense: the union budgets $1.3 billion a year and employs about 3,000 people for translating and interpreting.
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www.nytimes.com/2006/12/06/world/europe/06belgium.html
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