A high official in the European Commission's translation branch has said that despite discussions and fears in recent years about mushrooming costs for translations and interpretations in the EU, the principle of granting each citizen the right to communicate with Brussels in their own language should not be altered, no matter the number of member states in the future.
"Nobody would wish or dare to touch upon this sacred principle," Juhani Lonnroth, the director general for the commiss...
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