The institutions of the European Union employ hundreds of translators. Why? What do they do? What sort of translation problems do they have to tackle? Has the language policy of the European Union been affected by the recent inclusion of new Member States?

This book answers all those questions.

Emma Wagner, Svend Bech, Jesús M. Martínez

Chapter 1 Why we translate; Chapter 2 The EU institutions: their roles and their translation services; Chapter 3 How to get in; Chapter 4 What we translate; Chapter 5 Problems; Chapter 6 What the job involves; Chapter 7 EU enlargement and its impact on translation; Chapter 8 Translator profiles;