Work to translate European Union legislation into Icelandic will provide 85 jobs all over Iceland — including 10 in rural East Iceland. The project will last for three years.
A company called Sagnabrunnur in Seydisfjordur is one business participating in the project which was franchised out by the translation centre at the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs. According to the company’s director, Rannveig Thorhallsdottir, her company in East Iceland will employ 8-10 translators, RUV reports.
The project will see EU legislation, such as directives and regulations, connected to Iceland’s accession bid translated into Icelandic.
Although legal translation work can be dry and rather difficult, Thorhallsdottir says that the first texts have actually been quite fun. The texts translated so far have been about tractors, and as two farmers are among the translators, the mood has been very good, she says.
The company director adds that the project is very positive for her small East Iceland community to have the requirement for university educated people in new positions. The project takes place online and translators can work from home — making it ideal for parents where it is possible to manage the washing machine in one hand and the computer in the other, Thorhallsdottir says.
” The project will see EU legislation, such as directives and regulations, connected to Iceland’s accession bid translated into Icelandic. ”
This is what happens when you do go form 10% of EU directives ( as we do have under EFTA in EEA ) to 100 %.
The cost of translations is nothing compared to the costs of implementing all this and the new jobs for the burecrats to enforce them if Icelandic voters would be stupid enough to say yes in referendum.
The sooner this EU application that no more than Social Demorcats voters want — is pulled the better.
This 20% voters in country who are Social Demicrats are wlecome to to join EU. Move yourselfs all to Denmark.
Leave the rest of us out of it.
You Icelandic citizens, don’t join the EU. You will be put into chains!
90 % of our laws are only a transposition of decisions made in Brussels by non democratic institutions!
Look at us French people, we voted against the European constitution with a 55 % majority and still a similar treaty (the Treaty of Lisbon) was imposed to us by our government and parliament! Look at Ireland, do you think thye benefit from being part of the EU? Make a decision to remain free before it is too late!
Free peoples of Europe, get united!
Nice for these 85 people, but who pays for these pointless jobs? Icelandic taxpayers I guess? (Pointless since it seems unlikely Icelanders will want to join the EU)