Press Release: The Commission organises a debate in Brussels on translation, ‘the language of Europe’

The President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, and the Commissioner for multilingualism, Leonard Orban, invited 16 well known European translators, writers, publishers and literary critics from different countries to a Lunch-Debate on translation and culture, on 6 November in Brussels. The Lunch-Debate was preceded by a half-day discussion among the participants focusing on translation as a key to dialogue between cultures; an intellectual bridge between small and big languages; and translation in all its forms and actors.