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"Mr Ilchev’s timely amendment manages to strike the right balance between an inclusive multilingual Parliament, and the need to be realistic in our attitude both to budgets and language policy. One of the fundamental assets of the European Union is its diversity of peoples, cultures and languages, but Parliament cannot sustain a political Tower of Babel – not least one demanding over EUR 1 billion in annual translation costs. I appreciate that, as an English speaker, I have a natural advantage in this House, but Parliament cannot allow boundless language proliferation at vast expense to European taxpayers. The UN, with 193 members, manages very well with six official languages, and the Council of Europe, with 47 members, operates with just two languages. I therefore welcome the compromise that allows citizens to listen to parliamentary speeches in their own languages, but which limits a further written translation service that we simply cannot afford."@en1
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