What is machine translation?
Machine translation is a form of automatic translation that is not checked by a human. As such, machine-translated information is not as reliable as human-translated information and should be treated with caution.
However, for a quick, general overview of a page in your preferred language, machine translation can be a useful tool.
How to view a page in another language?
At the top of the web page, you will see a small globe icon next to the language in which you are currently viewing the page. Click on the globe icon.
This will open a drop-down menu showing all EU languages.
For example, if you click on German and the page is available in German, the German version of the page will appear.
However, if you click on a language in which the page is not available (i.e. in Italian below), you will receive a pop-up message at the top of the page informing you that the Italian version of this page is automatically translated by the European Commission's eTranslation service. Click on 'Tradurre in Italiano' to start the machine translation.
Please note that it may take several seconds for the machine translation to be produced.
Once it is ready, you will see the machine-translated version of the page on your screen.
NB: Please note that machine translation will not translate certain features on the page such as documents, videos and images.