POSITIONING OF SLOVENIAN AS A EUROPEAN UNION OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: FROM PAST ACTIVITIES TO FUTURE CHALLENGES.

This article is a survey of legal-linguistic projects that, upon its accession to the European Union, enabled Slovenia to establish the Slovenian language as an EU official language, and presents activities performed by Slovenian institutions and translation departments within EU institutions that permit Slovenia as an EU member state to function daily in the EU context. It highlights developments in contemporary technical language and terminology made possible by the integration into a family of 24 official languages. All developments are also shown in the context of the Slovenian language policy. Moreover, it includes an inside perspective, from the standpoint of one EU institution -- the European Commission -- on the use of contemporary translation tools, and presents the interdisciplinary and interinstitutional endeavours leading towards an improvement in the quality and management of Slovenian terminology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]