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While money spent on translation services is often described as the ‘cost of democracy’, British Conservative MEP Geoffry Van Orden does not believe the EU institutions need to translate documents into every language to preserve their principles.
Van Orden, who has long campaigned to reduce the translation budget, said following his report on cutting bureaucratic costs last year: "NATO has 28 member countries and just two working languages, the UN has 193 member states and six working languages.
"Why must all our documents be translated into 22 different languages? It is one of the most costly parts of parliament's budget."
