[TotempaaltJ]

> EU budget cut by half

I realize this is a joke, but the EU being the EU, it of course does publish[0] information on its translation costs. In 2023, translation in fact is budgeted for only 0.2% of the total EU budget. All costs included, that's €349 million for EU translation services.

[0]: https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/86b...

[arlort]

And the kind of translations that are the most expensive for the EU are unlikely to be replaced any time soon, at least not entirely

Not sure we'd want unsupervised translation of legally binding (at times highly technical) texts into legally binding texts in another language

Nor the real time translation enabling works in places like EP committees or plenaries

[civilitty]

Ironically those translations are some of the best datasets for AI. Those translations are very high quality.