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• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Half Title
• Copyright Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Why we translate
• Multilingualism: the principle
• Equality before the law
• Citizenship of the Union
• Legal basis of multilingualism
• Language versions or translations?
• Three common myths about multilingualism
• Exercises for students
• 2. The EU institutions: their roles and their translation services
• How the EU institutions interact
• The European Council
• The European Parliament
• The Council of the European Union
• The European Commission
• The Court of Justice of the European Union
• The European Court of Auditors
• The European Central Bank
• The European Ombudsman
• The European Data Protection Supervisor
• Financial bodies
• The European Investment Bank
• The European Investment Fund
• Advisory bodies
• The Economic and Social Committee
• The Committee of the Regions
• Joint Services of the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions
• Interinstitutional bodies
• European External Action service (EEAS)
• Publications Office of the European Union
• European Personnel Selection Office (EPSO)
• Eurostat
• European Administrative School
• Agencies
• Common Security and Defence Policy Agencies
• Police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters
• Other policy areas (‘Community’ agencies)
• Executive agencies
• EURATOM agencies and bodies
• European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
• The Translation Centre
• An afterthought
• Exercises for students
• 3. How to get in
• Working in-house for the EU institutions
• Recruitment
• EPSO recruitment competitions for permanent translators
• Competition in two phases
• General conditions of eligibility for permanent translators
• Success rates in recent translators’ competitions
• Non-permanent staff: Temporary translators and contract agents
• Working for the EU institutions as a freelance translator
• ‘Calls for tender’ and ‘calls for expressions of interest’
• Calls for tender – more details
• Freelance translation in practice: the steps involved
• Rapid post-editing by freelance post-editors
• Working for the EU institutions as a trainee (intern)
• Paid and unpaid traineeships
• Cooperation with universities training translators
• Visits to the EU institutions
• European Master’s in Translation (EMT)
• Visiting translator scheme (VTS)
• A final idea: translators as guinea pigs
• Exercises for students
• 4. What we translate
• Treaties
• Legislation involving several institutions
• The preparatory stages
• Legislation issued by a single institution
• Political scrutiny
• Judicial scrutiny
• Public scrutiny and administration
• Information for the public
• ‘We never translate alone!’
• A footnote: language range
• Exercises for students
• 5. Problems
• Untranslatability
• Non-transferability of concepts
• Supranational concepts and Eurospeak
• Slogans and puns – mission impossible
• Crossing cultural barriers
• Translating for in-house readers
• Translating for readers outside the EU institutions
• Translating for … who knows?
• Quality of originals and the effect on translations
• Drafting by non-native speakers
• Collective drafting
• New drafting guidelines for legislation, clear writing campaigns
• Interinstitutional Agreement on the quality of legal drafting
• Fight the FOG campaign
• Citizens’ summaries
• Clear Writing campaign
• Editing of originals
• Interference
• Interference between languages
• Interference between registers
• Interference by non-translators
• Deadlines
• Exercises for students
• 6. What the job involves
• Day-to-day
• Organisation of work
• Interaction with clients
• Translation tools and aids used in the EU institutions
• Inputting translations
• Online teamwork
• Research
• Full-text databases and document collections
• Translation memories
• Machine translation
• In-house training
• On-the-job training
• Language training
• Subject training
• Job prospects for in-house translators
• Career development
• Teleworking
• Alternatives to translation
• The future
• Interinstitutional cooperation
• Decentralised translation
• Exercises for students
• 7. EU enlargement and its impact on translation
• Enlargement: translation facts and figures
• Defending multilingualism
• Enlargement dates
• Pre-accession and post-accession needs
• Translation of the acquis communautaire (EU legislation in force)
• Revising the translations of primary and secondary legislation
• In-house preparation for enlargement
• Recruitment
• A virtual accession: Newland joins the EU
• Translation of the acquis into Newlish
• Translation out of Newlish: training of in-house staff
• Translation into Newlish: training of future translators in Newland
• Translation into Newlish: recruitment to the EU institutions
• Public reactions in Newland to EU translations (criticism of translationese and fear that Newlish will be corrupted)
• Exercises for students
• 8. Translator profiles
• Angelika Vaasa, translator at the European Parliament
• José Cuenda Guijarro, translator at the Council of the European Union
• Wanda Vrbata-Gręplowska, Polish translator and terminologist at the European Commission
• David Monkcom, editor and former translator at the European Commission
• Simon Bartolo, translator in the Web Translation Unit at the European Commission
• Simona Pečnik Kržič, Slovenian translator at the European Court of Auditors
• Annex 1
• The Treaties
• The Constitutional Treaty and the Treaty of Lisbon
• Annex 2
• A brief guide to European Union legislation
• 1 Types of instrument
• 2 The anatomy of an instrument
• Works Cited
• Index