The EU’s multilingual nature can be an asset for European companies, giving them the tools they need to harness multilingualism as a means of accessing multicultural global markets and gaining a competitive advantage over their US counterparts, heard participants in this Policy Dialogue, jointly organised by the EPC and the European Academy of Yuste Foundation, and with the kind support of Poliglotti4.eu project.
Jochen Hummel, Chairman of LT Innovate and CEO of ESTeam is quoted in this report, saying that while "… capital could flow freely between EU countries, the same could not be said of information, citing as an example the difficulties of cross-border e-government." And " …it’s not necessarily a translation problem. It’s a problem of processing multilingual information. The control of information and content has changed, shifting from companies to users and from governments to citizens"
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