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Find out about the 24 EU official languages, multilingualism, and rules on the use of languages by the EU institutions.
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).
Get a list of the 23 official languages spoken in the member states of the European Union, from Bulgarian to Swedish.
We aim to provide information on our websites in all 24 EU official languages. If content is not available in your chosen EU language, more and more websites offer eTranslation, the Commission’s machine translation service.
- Official Languages
- EU Laws
- Communication with Individuals and Organisations
- Public Consultations
- Web Content
- Social Media Activities
- Press Material
- Commission Representations in The Member States
- Translation and Interpretation
- EU Law on Languages
The official and working languages of the EU institutions (hereinafter also ‘EU official languages’) are: 1. Bulgarian 2. Spanish 3. Czech 4. Danish 5. German 6. Estonian 7. Greek 8. English 9. French 10. Irish 11. Croatian 12. Italian 13. Latvian 14. Lithuanian 15. Hungarian 16. Maltese 17. Dutch 18. Polish 19. Portuguese 20. Romanian 21. Slovak 2...
Legal actsand their summariesare available in all EU official languages.Similarly, Commission proposals for legal acts are also available in all those languages. Some types of acts are not available in all EU official languages because they are not of general application (i.e. Commission decisions addressed to a Member State or private party), or b...
Writing to the Commission
Individuals and organisations may contact the EU institutions on a wide range of topics. For instance they may 1. request information 2. participate in an administrative procedure 3. file a complaint against a Member State Regardless of the topic on which they contact the EU, individuals and organisations may write to the institutions in any EU official language and have the right to receive an answer in the same language.
Engaging with citizens
The Conference on the Future of Europemarked the start of a new phase of citizen engagement. Members of the public can actively participate in shaping European policies by sharing their views on the Citizen’s engagement platform. This is a dedicated space where people can post contributions or comment on or endorse contributions from others. Thanks to real-time translation, they can participate in any of the EU's 24 official languages. These contributions feed into European Citizens' Panels....
To make it easier for people to participate in the EU policy- and law-making process, the Commission regularly launches public consultations in the form of online questionnaires. These questionnaires are always available in at least English, French and German and often in other EU official languages too. Public consultation questionnaires related t...
The Commission’s websites on the europa.eu web domain are generally available in the 24 EU official languages. More on the Commission's use of different languages on its websites.
All EU official languages are covered on social media through the Commission’s central accounts, the social media accounts of the Commission’s Representations in the Member States and the accounts of the Members of the College of Commissioners. This includes social media content, campaigns and engagement with citizens.
The European Commission Spokesperson’s Service’s press material (such as press releases, questions and answers, factsheets) are always published in English, French and German. They are often also translated into specific languages or even all EU official languages on a case-by-case basis. Any press material related to the meeting of the College of ...
The dedicated websites and social media pages of the Commission Representations in each Member State use the EU official language (or languages) of the Member State concerned.
The Commission relies on a pool of highly skilled translators and interpreters, ensuring that all EU official languages can be used in and by the institutions. The Directorate-General for Interpretationprovides interpretation services to EU institutions for meetings and conferences. The Directorate-General for Translationtranslates documents from a...
The rules governing the use of languages by the EU institutions are established by the Council, acting unanimously by means of regulations, adopted under Article 342 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Those rules are laid down in Regulation No 1 from 1958, as amended, which provides that the institutions have 24 official and wo...
EU official languages. български; español; čeština; dansk; Deutsch; eesti; ελληνικά; English
Language. Select a 2nd language Language Select a language English Bulgarian Croatian Czech Danish Dutch Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Irish Italian Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swedish English
