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During the last 60 years, Europe has become a distinct political and economic structure, yet culturally and linguistically it is still very diverse. This means that from Portuguese to Polish, Italian to Icelandic, everyday communication between Europe’s citizens as well as communication in the spheres of business and politics is inevitably confronted by language barriers. The EU’s institutions spend about a billion euros a year on maintaining their policy of multilingualism, i. e., translating texts and interpreting spoken communication.
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Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (2012). Executive Summary. In: Rehm, G., Uszkoreit, H. (eds) The Lithuanian Language in the Digital Age. White Paper Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30758-4_6
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