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Head of Unit - Corporate Services M/F (Grade AD 10)
Permanent representative in Madrid
Principal, Border Management Staff College (P5)
Stagiaire / Trainee - for the leading EU policy media
Junior Scientific and Technical Advisor
Assistant Communications & Public Affairs Departments
Head of Section, responsible for high-performance computing and data handling
Post an EU jobEuropean Commission representatives are in France this week to encourage young people to consider a career in languages, amid fears that the EU executive will face a "serious shortage" of French-language interpreters within five to 10 years.
The European Commission is seeking to kill off excessive legal speak by setting up a hotline that will give officials advice on how to write more clearly, it emerged at a conference in Brussels yesterday (17 November).
The EU has been busy scanning books and documents to improve citizens' access to culture and history, but its efforts have been overshadowed by Google's commercial push to digitise Europe's book heritage. (read more)
Already accepted as a tool for social integration, sport is also seen as a means of promoting intercultural understanding in an increasingly diverse Europe. (read more)
Promoting a multilingual economy, giving citizens access to European Union information in their own languages and encouraging linguistic diversity through langauge learning: these are the principles underpinning the Commission's multilingualism policy. (read more)