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The EU has 24 official languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish. History.
The European Union (EU) has 24 official languages, of which three – English, French and German – have the higher status of "procedural" languages of the European Commission (whereas the European Parliament accepts all official languages as working languages).
new Member States declare which of their languages will become an offic ial EU language. Currently, the EU has three alphabets (Cyrillic, Greek and Latin) and 24 official languages (see Figure 2), which are listed in the Treaties (Article 55(1) TEU). English is still one of those languages, even following the withdrawal of the United Kingdom ...
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The following is a list of the 23 official languages of the EU arranged in alphabetical order: 1) Bulgarian. 2) Czech. 3) Danish. 4) Dutch. 5) English. 6) Estonian. 7) Finnish. 8) French.
May 12, 2018 · The most spoken language of the European Union is English which is understood by 51% of the grownups. On the other hand, German is the most used mother tongue which is spoken by 18% of the adults. All the 23 languages are recognized as working languages but in essence, English are French are in used more widely than any other language.
Aug 4, 2022 · Internally, the EU institutions mostly use just three working languages: English, French and German. The overall cost for delivering translation and interpreting services in the EU institutions is around €1 billion per year, which represents less than 1 % of the EU budget or just over €2 per citizen.
