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'Speak slowly, speak in your mother tongue', Welle said. (Photo: European Parliament)

Fast-talking MEPs 'drive interpreters crazy'

Members of the European Parliament should speak in their own language and take care not to speak too quickly, to prevent interpreters from going “crazy”, the parliament's secretary-general has said.

“It is important that people do not speak too fast,” Klaus Welle said at a meeting of the parliament's budgetary control committee on Thursday (4 February).

He pointed out that some speakers in plenary and committee sessions churn out up to 180 words per minute.

Welle met the i...

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'Speak slowly, speak in your mother tongue', Welle said. (Photo: European Parliament)

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