Posted by : JÓVENES POR EUROPA domingo, 30 de marzo de 2014

The EU has 24 official languages ​​, unless the number of member states in certain countries because several languages ​​are spoken. Moreover, also because not all official languages ​​are recognized as official languages ​​of the EU. This is the case of the Luxembourg language , the official language of Luxembourg from 1984 and the case of the Turkish , the official language of Cyprus.

All official EU languages ​​are working languages. The documents state that a member or a person sent to the institutions of the community may be written in any official EU language . The answer will be in the language in which the document was sent . Regulations and other documents of general importance, such as the Official Journal of the European Union , are written in all official languages ​​. Legislation and documents of major public importance are written in the 24 official languages ​​, but this only happens rarely .


The cost of maintaining this policy multilingual is of 1,123 million euros , representing 1% of the EU budget . This means that each inhabitant of the European Union pays 2.55 euros a year, a small price for the great diversity that is .

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