20.11.2009
12:30 – 13:15

KLEINER SAAL (EG)

Dolmetschen für Europa
Dolmetscher Europäischer Institutionen,
Europäisches Parlament, Europäische Kommission, Europäischer Gerichtshof

The European Institutions are producing videos in languages for which they will have most difficulties in replacing retiring interpreters. Before 2019 they will lose about half their current staff and freelance interpreters, many of whom joined the Institutions in the early 1980s.

The video "Dolmetschen für Europa – auf Deutsch", which will have its world premiere in Berlin at Expolingua on 20m November 2009, explains what conference interpreting is about and takes the audience into the heart of the European Institutions to show the workplaces of the interpreters at the very frontline of the decision making that concerns all European citizens.