Author Archives: Nicolae Sfetcu

The activity with the largest aggregate market value across the EU was newspaper publishing in 2010, with its value surpassing 40 billion Euro. The publication of periodicals and that of books followed closely with values nearing 37 billion and 30 … Read More

Animal-machine is an etiological hypothesis that animals are machines. Such as machinery, animals would be assemblies of parts and machinery, devoid of conscience or thought. This design is born by René Descartes in the seventeenth century and is part of … Read More

  The back-translation (sometimes called retroversion) is to write back in the language of a text already translated. It can be a very accurate and useful work as one who is translating English text into French and then retranslated into … Read More

The French betting and gaming industry has a long and complex history. The main French horse race betting operator, Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU), offers eleven different types of bets. There are more casinos in France than in any other single … Read More

This guide is a companion to the English Translation Style Guide for European Union.    For each EU Member State, plus two candidate countries, the guide provides English terms and translations. Most of the individual country sections contain a general … Read More

Version numbers After the appearance of the term “Web 2.0”, a nomenclature appeared to describe the present, the past and the future of the Web. The uses presented here are not necessarily the only ones. In addition, for certain numbers … Read More

Lithuania is a unitary state. Law on Games of 17 May 2001 (No IX-325) establishes the conditions and procedure for the operation of gaming in the Republic of Lithuania. Furthermore, the Law on lotteries of 1 July 2003 (No IX-1661) … Read More

  Full name: Republic of Turkey. Official language: Turkish. Judicial bodies Anayasa Mahkemesi > Constitutional Court Askeri Yargıtay > Military Court of Cassation Askeri Yüksek İdare Mahkemesi (AYİM) > High Military Administrative Court Başsavcı > Chief Public Prosecutor Ceza Dairesi … Read More

The advent of the Internet and its rash development in the past few decades have revolutionised our habits and patterns of behaviour. It offers huge opportunities for communication or access to information, but is often blamed for disrupting human relations. … Read More

Golf is a precision sport playing outdoors, which involves sending a ball into a hole using golf clubs. The goal is to carry on a defined path, using the least amount of shots. Precision, endurance, technique, concentration are essential qualities … Read More

Full name: Kingdom of Sweden. Call the country’s main administrative/regional units (län) ‘counties’ in English. Official language: Swedish. Geography Cities Note Gothenburg for Göteborg. However, the Swedish form should be used in some EU-specific contexts, e.g. the Göteborg summit/process. Regions … Read More

Justification National measure Compatibility with EC law, in particular with the principle of proportionality Public order, money laundering, crime Criminally-sanctioned prohibition of operation or participation in a game of chance laid down in the Criminal Code (Art. 714 et seq.) … Read More