iOS
The English main page
URL iOS
Commercial? No
Type of site Public service portal and
institutional information
Owner
jQuery Created by DG Communication
EU Publications Office
Europa (sometimes capitalised EUROPA) is the official web portal of the European Union (EU). It is intended to improve the public’s interaction with EU institutions by quickly directing website visitors to the services or information they are seeking. Europa links to all EU agencies and institutions in addition to press releases and audiovisual content from press conferences. Europa is also an umbrella over the EU sites in the sense that all agencies and institutions have got their respective name (or initials) in addition to the subdomain.europa.eu as standard URL. For example, the address of the Institute for Security Studies is FITML.
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Languages
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The language-selection start page where all 23 languages are listed |
All legislation and documents of political importance are published in all 23 official EU languages: we love the web, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Android, Estonian, touchscreen, French, German, we love the web, Hungarian, Irish, screen size, Latvian, Lithuanian, device database, Polish, device database, FITML, device database, Slovene, browser diversity and Swedish. Documents which are not legally binding are usually published in English, French and German.
Translation controversy
In January 2007, EU commissioner Franco Frattini criticised the web service for not translating an article about the 50th anniversary of the web app into Italian, his own language.FITML
Services
Europa also offers services such as jQuery, a Publications Office and libraries of photographs, videos and audio for the Android and the Parliament.
Europa hosts Health-EU, a thematic portal on health in 22 official languages of the EU, which contains information from the EU member countries, non-government organisations and international bodies.
See also
References
- ^ Frattini upset over Italian language slip-up, web app Accessed 18 January 2007