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"Amongst the reasons identified to justify the need for a new FWA was a perceived lack of interpreters, and a perception that interpreters were over-paid. In the context of a free labour market, these views seem somewhat paradoxical. "
'There is a shortage of English native speaker conference interpreters working for the EU – let’s dismantle the whole EU interpretation service, outsource it to a small translation company set up in a back bedroom somewhere in Sicily and that will solve the problem.'
For all the negativity of the NAO report; it states that ALS/ CAPITA have improved. But have they?
'The CILT report as a whole, is skewed by its failure, when drawing broad conclusions, to differentiate between public service interpreters, interpreters working for businesses & translators. It is therefore highly prejudicial of the EIA to use it to bolster arguments that are specific to public service interpreters.'
