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The European Elections: Languages

There are 34 languages spoken in the EU. Ten of them are official languages: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Irish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. All but Irish are working languages: meetings and documents are routinely interpreted and translated among these nine tongues.

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