EU constitution translation full of errors

Feb 02, 2005
By TBT staff

RIGA - The Latvian translation of the EU Constitutional Treaty is so riddled with errors that the government had to withdraw it from consideration by Parliament. The Foreign Ministry, together with the state-run Translation and Terminology Center, will form a common working group to address the reported 160 substantial and 350 editorial mistakes. They will send the new text along with a recent list of mistakes to the Council of Ministers by Feb. 14. The initial translation was made by three tran ...

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