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Multilingualism is a European asset, but at the same time it can present barriers to free flow of information and cross-border communication. Such obstacles can be efficiently overcome with the use of Language Technology (LT) and language-centric Artificial Intelligence (AI).

In a highly digitised and globalised world, it is vital to be able to understand each other even if you do not speak the same language. Language Technologies (LT) are the basis for building the necessary bridges between countries and language borders.

eTranslation, the European Commission's free and secure automatic translation service, is now also covering Russian and Chinese translation in addition to all EU official languages, Norwegian and Icelandic. But why these two languages? Because European SMEs needed them!

The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) - the team behind eTranslation - has decided to further enhance the security of their machine translation tool by making use of the eDelivery building block.

Since March 2020, European small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can now also benefit from the European Commission’s machine translation (MT) system eTranslation. Before making this big and important step, the European Commission conducted a consultation to better understand their needs, interests and potential use cases in the field of Language Technology (LT).