Translation at the European Commission – a history

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 the European 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 the authors 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.

• Primary Source

European Commission: DG Translation http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/index_en.htm

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