Europe lives in and by translation and interpretation. EFNIL’s 11th conference dealt with the importance of these two communicative techniques for multilingual Europe. Reports on interpretation and translation at EU-institutions and on training and practice of interpreters and translators in various European countries are given and discussed.

Contents: Jolanta Zabarskaité: Welcome address – Marco Benedetti : Intervention à la conférence annuelle de l’EFNIL – Rytis Martikonis: Opening address – Jan Truszczyński: Translation and Interpretation in Europe: Reflections from the angle of education and culture – Gintaras Morkūnas: Welcome address – Gerhard Stickel: Introduction/Einführung/Įžanga – Klaus Reichert: «Lost and Found in Translation» – Georgios Floros: «Lost» and «found» in Translation: Myths and realities for national languages and imageries – Marie Cornu : Traduction du droit et droit de la traduction, les enjeux européens – Antonina Werthmann/Andreas Witt: Maschinelle Übersetzung - Gegenwart und Perspektiven – Johan Van Hoorde: Co-ordination of institutional terminology between European institutions and national Member States: the Dutch language example and the European perspective – Sten Palmgren: Translation of laws and public texts – Gunnhildur Stefansdottir: Translator training in the Translation Centre of the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs. A short report on special training issues for English-Icelandic translation – Italo Rubino: Tradurre per la Commissione europea. Aspetti generali e pratici del Dipartimento italiano della Direzione generale Traduzione – Martina Ožbot: The role and status of translation in a translation-oriented culture: the case of Slovenia – Sabine Kirchmeier-Andersen: Panel debate: Demands and suggestions for interpretation and translation in Europe - Introduction – Gunnhildur Stefansdottir: Panel presentation – Claude Durand: Panel presentation.