La Chambre belge des Traducteurs et Interprètes témoigne tout son soutien à nos collègues ukrainiens et russes où qu’ils soient. Elle s’associe ainsi aux messages et actions de la Fédération Internationale des traducteurs (FIT - International Federation of Translators qui entend « défendre les droits moraux et matériels des traducteurs,...
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Referring to the use of technology to optimise the balance between supply and demand, the term ‘uberisation’ was popularised in 2014. It now has a permanent place in our vocabulary and covers a wide variety of realities and connotations – some positive, some negative, some controversial. Sharing economy advocates welcome the rise of a so-called...
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La Journée mondiale de la traduction se fête traditionnellement le 30 septembre, jour de la Saint-Jérôme. C’est en effet saint Jérôme de Stridon qui s’attela, vers la fin du IVe siècle, à traduire en latin les textes grecs et hébreux de l’Ancien et du Nouveau Testament. Baptisée la Vulgate, cette traduction sera le tout premier livre imprimé...
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Directive 2010/64/EU on the right to interpretation and translation in criminal proceedings requires the Member States to set up a national register of legal translators and interpreters and to take measures to ensure that translation and interpreting services meet the quality required. Given that the Maastricht Treaty has imposed swingeing...
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Europe’s Digital Single Market must be multilingual! — This is the title of an open letter to the European Commission, presented as a petition inviting signatures and published on 20 March 2015 (http://www.multilingualeurope.eu/). The central advocacy of this open letter is that the European Commission should undertake concerted and immediate...
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I. Introduction
TTIP is a partnership project aiming to make Europe and the USA into one single totally open market, free from all procedural or regulatory barriers, for flows of products, services and capital. This partnership, which the champions of total liberalism and market deregulation – the White House and the European Commission at the...