British government's botched German translation of Chequers white paper met with ridicule
19/07/2018
The British government is facing ridicule from German-speaking Brussels officials and diplomats after Whitehall botched an attempt to translate its new Brexit white paper into other languages.
The UK government has taken the somewhat unprecedented step of translating the executive summary of its Brexit White Paper into 22 European languages.
Bad and absent foreign language documents reflect how poorly UK understands EU culture