Commissioner for Multilingualism

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The Commissioner for Multilingualism is the member of the European Commission whose remit is the issue of linguistic diversity. It was only since the Barroso I Commission in 2004 that the Commissioner for Education and Culture was also expressly responsible for the area of ​​languages; With the EU expansion in 2007 , multilingualism was spun off as a separate department. The Romanian Leonard Orban has been the incumbent since then . In the Barroso II Commission , which started its work in February 2010, multilingualism was transferred back to the education department. In the Juncker Commission , the function is assigned to the Commissioner for Budget and Personnel .

Responsibilities

From a political point of view, the task area is mainly focused on the promotion of foreign language skills as a means for the mobility of European workers and competitiveness in the common labor market. The Commissioner is also responsible for the rights of speakers of regional and minority languages ​​and the languages ​​of migrants. The Commissioner for Multilingualism shares the competence for intercultural dialogue with the Commission President .

From an administrative point of view, the Commissioner for Multilingualism reports to the Directorates-General for Translation , Joint Interpreting and Conference Services and (as far as multilingualism issues are concerned) the Publications Office of the European Union and the Multilingualism Policy Department in the Directorate-General for Education and Culture . This corresponds to a total of 3,400 employees - around 15% of the European Commission's staff - and around 1% of the EU budget .

Previous incumbent

Commissioner Term of office Country national party european party other responsibilities
unoccupied since 2014
Androulla Vassiliou 2010-2014 Cyprus RepublicRepublic of Cyprus Cyprus EDI ELDR

Education and culture

Leonard Orban 2007-2010 RomaniaRomania Romania PNL related parties ELDR related parties
Ján Figeľ 2004-2006 SlovakiaSlovakia Slovakia KDH EPP Education and culture

See also