how many and which are the official languages of the European Union?

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  • "There are 20 official languages of the EU: Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Italian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Maltese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Czech, German and Hungarian. The original document from 1958 had four: Dutch French, German and Italian. To this list has been added the new member states: 1973 Denmark and UK, 1981 Greece, 1986 Spain and Portugal, 1995 Sweden and Finland, 2004 the rest, mainly former ""Eastern European"" countries and Malta From January 1st 2007, Irish will be added to that list, making a total of 21"

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