45% of EU citizens are monolingual … that’s 200,000,000 people. The cost of translation per EU Citizen is more or less the price of a cappuccino!
October 20, 2006
Visionaries
The Price of a Cappuccino = Multilingualism as a Democratic Right
By Karl-Johan Lönnroth, Director-General for Translation, European Commission
Interviewed by Rebecca Ray, Managing Editor, LISA
Rebecca Ray
Managing Editor
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