De Internationale Dag van de Vertaler vieren we traditioneel op 30 september, de naamdag van de heilige Hiëronymus. Het was immers Hiëronymus van Stridon die op het einde van de 4de eeuw n.Chr. het monnikenwerk op zich nam om de Griekse en Hebreeuwse teksten van het Oude en het Nieuwe Testament in het Latijn te vertalen. Deze zogenaamde Vulgaat...
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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...