http://www.euractiv.com/Latests DocumentsUNEenSat, 21 Nov 2009 04:44:53 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss5editor@euractiv.comwebmaster@euractiv.comhttp://www.euractiv.com/cssea/logo.gifhttp://www.euractiv.com/10360http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/eu-addresses-shortage-french-interpreters/article-187506?Ref=RSSEuropean Commission representatives are in France this week to encourage young people to consider a career in languages, amid fears that the EU executive will face a "serious shortage" of French-language interpreters within five to 10 years.Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:00:00 GMTtcm:29-187506-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/eu-officials-offered-hotline-clear-writing/article-187434?Ref=RSSThe European Commission is seeking to kill off excessive legal speak by setting up a hotline that will give officials advice on how to write more clearly, it emerged at a conference in Brussels yesterday (17 November).Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:50:00 GMTtcm:29-187434-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/european-works-left-google-books-deal/article-187354?Ref=RSSPublished works from the US, UK, Australia and Canada only will be included in Google's digital book search project, Google and book industry representatives agreed on Friday (13 November).Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:41:13 GMTtcm:29-187354-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/eu-grant-free-interpretation-rights-suspected-criminals/article-186756?Ref=RSSPeople in Europe facing criminal proceedings outside of their country of residence will be able to receive free interpretation and translations of procedural documents in their native language, justice ministers agreed last week (23 October).Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:50:00 GMTtcm:29-186756-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/slovak-hungarian-dispute-slovakia-language-law/article-186732?Ref=RSS"Due to Slovakia and Hungary's diverging interests and positions, as well as the internal social and political conditions in the two countries, it appears unlikely that the [language] conflict will be ended and relations normalised in the medium term," write Jakub Groszkowski and Mariusz Bocian, researchers at the Centre for Eastern Studies (CES), in an October paper.Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:00:00 GMTtcm:29-186732-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/eu-tackle-digital-book-copyright-2010/article-186586?Ref=RSSThe European Commission will establish "simple and cost-efficient rights clearance systems" on the digitisation of published works and their availability on the Internet, it announced this week (19 October).Wed, 21 Oct 2009 06:45:00 GMTtcm:29-186586-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/eu-opens-historical-archives-public/article-186546?Ref=RSSThousands of EU publications were made available to the public for free last week (16 October) following the launch in Frankfurt of a new digital library, the 'EU Bookshop'.Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:50:00 GMTtcm:29-186546-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/brussels-plans-tax-film-distributors/article-186487?Ref=RSSThe European Commission is considering imposing a fee on movie distributors to help fund the shift to digital cinema, which is expected to increase the EU's share of the global film market but is deemed to be too expensive for small cinema operators.Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:45:00 GMTtcm:29-186487-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/political-divide-remains-molotov-ribbentrop-pact/article-186424?Ref=RSSMembers of the European Parliament continue to oppose each other over the significance of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which divided Eastern Europe between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union.Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:45:00 GMTtcm:29-186424-16http://www.euractiv.com/en/culture/digitisation-published-works/article-186302?Ref=RSSThe EU has been busy scanning books and documents to improve citizens' access to culture and history, but its efforts have been overshadowed by Google's commercial push to digitise Europe's book heritage.Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:09:12 GMTtcm:29-186302-16