The European Commission plans to cut back on Spanish and Italian translators to meet enlargement needs, while English continues to sideline French and German as the main working language.
The number of Italian translators is forecast to go down from 86 to 67 next year and Spanish staff will be cut from 101 to 67.
French translators are also set to fall from 140 to 126 and German from 139 to 126, while English language translators are set to rise from 121 to 122.
French, Ge...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.