Despite an official declaration of "equal footing" treatment at the inter-governmental conference launched today (4 October) in Rome, the new EU member states were not given a translation service equal to current EU states during their work on the final shape of the EU Constitution.
For financial and technical reasons, the Italian Presidency was unable to provide the nine languages of the EU newcomers at the meeting which brought together heads of state and government as well as their ...
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