Use the EU website to improve your ability to produce correct English vocabulary, grammar and syntax and avoid false friends. There are also links to the sites of the UN, the FAO, the Bank of Italy and NATO. Remember the main documents produced by the UN and EU provide a standard for English for international relations.
The homepage of
the EU website
Start
with the EU homepage and all the documents linked it. Open the homepage in Italian and open
it again in English on another page on your laptop. Translate
from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to
the English version to check. Of course, there will be some differences of
style and occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in
identifying any really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the
errors will be mainly vocabulary). Make notes on your errors. You should also
note any spelling you need to remember.
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
Then open all
the documents listed on the homepage (and the ones connected to those!) in
Italian and English.
https://eu-solidarity-ukraine.ec.europa.eu/index_it
https://eu-solidarity-ukraine.ec.europa.eu/index_en
For news, go to Featured News section:
https://european-union.europa.eu/news-and-events_it
https://european-union.europa.eu/news-and-events_en
Browse through a
selection of Featured EU news, see a comprehensive overview of the latest EU
news or read about past and upcoming events from the EU’s institutions and
bodies. All are available in all 24 EU official languages via
machine translation, when clicking on the full list of
corresponding content.
You can change
the language of the document directly at the top of the page but ‘Tutte le
notizie sono disponibili nelle 24 lingue ufficiali dell'UE mediante traduzione
automatica.’ L'italiano è
disponibile in versione tradotta automaticamente dal servizio eTranslation
della Commissione europea.
So the quality of the translation
of these news items may vary.
La
traduzione automatica permette di farsi un'idea di massima del contenuto di una
pagina in una lingua che si conosce. È del tutto automatizzata e non prevede
alcun intervento umano. La qualità e la precisione della traduzione automatica
possono variare notevolmente da un testo all'altro e da una combinazione
linguistica all'altra. La Commissione europea non ne garantisce l'esattezza e
non accetta alcuna responsabilità per eventuali errori. Alcuni contenuti (come
immagini, video, file, ecc.) non possono essere tradotti a causa dei limiti
tecnici del sistema.
Non utilizzare eTranslation per tradurre gli atti legislativi
dell'UE. Le versioni facenti fede nelle 24 lingue ufficiali sono disponibili
su Eur-Lex.
You can, of
course, search for a particular topic on the EU website:
the EU/UK future
relationship after Brexit
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/relations-non-eu-countries/relations-united-kingdom_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/relations-non-eu-countries/relations-united-kingdom_en
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_955
or the EU
response to Covid-19
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response_en
Here is the main
document to use for translation practice:
The EU in 2025 (the General Report on the Activities of the European Union)
Don’t forget, if you need to
expand your knowledge of basic vocabulary, go to the Publications Office of the
European Union at https://op.europa.eu/en/home on the EU site in Italian and English, where you will
find ‘the EU in 2025’ (the General Report on the Activities of the European
Union,178 pages divided into various sections).
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2025/it/ 119 pages
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2025/en/
Download the pdf of the full text of L’UE nel 2025 in
Italian. Then change the language to English and dowload the pdf of ‘The EU in
2025’ in English. (It is also availaable in French, Spanish and German if you
want)
Open the
report in Italian on your main page and open it again on
another page in English on your laptop. Translate from Italian to
English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to the
English version every two or three lines to check and make notes on vocabulary,
synonyms, grammar, word order, spelling, linking words, false friends and verbs
or adjectives that take particular prepositions. Of course, there will be some
differences of style and occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested
in identifying any really bad errors of vocabulary, word order or grammar that
you make (the errors will be mainly vocabulary). Make notes on your errors, any
spelling you need to remember or words that seem particularly useful.
Then click on the second
language that you want and download in Spanish, French or German! For example:
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2025/fr/
The EU publications site is also
useful if you are looking for other texts to read or translate)
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/general-publications/publications
look at the links to publications on the Green Deal, the environment,
artificial intelligence (AI) etc.
and for the general report for
previous years previous years, just do a search on https://op.europa.eu/en/home for
‘the Eu in 2024’ etc.
2024
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2024/it/
174 pages
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2024/en/
2023
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2023/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2023/en/
2022
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2022/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2022/en/
2021
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2021/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2021/en/
2020
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2020/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2020/en/
2019
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2019/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2019/en/
2018
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2018/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2018/en/
2017
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2017/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2017/en/
2016
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2016/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2016/en/
The EU in 2015
https://op.europa.eu/it/web/general-report
https://op.europa.eu/documents/2072384/2117292/NAAD16001ENN.pdf/7583a46b-e8f0-4ae7-b03f-8ebea15d2e76
and you can download ‘the General report on the activities of the
European Union 2014’ (288 pages!) in Italian and English from this link:
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/beafd525-4bc8-468c-9342-69041fb04e0f
If you prefer, you can go
straight to the English version of the EU in 2023 or other texts on the EU site
or UN site and simply start taking notes on common expressions used in
diplomatic English.
The Council of the EU, centre for press releases is another site where you can do more note-taking on
vocabulary and sometimes translation:
for example:
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2026/06/10/public-statement-by-president-costa-following-the-eu-republic-of-korea-summit/
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/it/press/press-releases/
There’s also EU
law. Search for a specific topic, the click on the law, choose the language and
download the text
For example, assistence to
Ukraine:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/search.html?scope=EURLEX&text=2022&lang=en&type=quick&qid=1663182311648
or cybersecurity with the text
in different languages
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R2841&qid=1754063715007
There's also the
European Green Deal in Italian and English
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en
This page and all the linked
pages
And the EU Recovery plan - NextGenerationEU
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_en
https://reforms-investments.ec.europa.eu/recovery-and-resilience-facility-1_en
and the Draghi
Report on EU Competitiveness
https://commission.europa.eu/topics/competitiveness/draghi-report_en?prefLang=it
L'italiano è disponibile in versione
tradotta automaticamente dal servizio eTranslation della Commissione europea.
and, of course, as we said, all the pages and documents linked to the EU’s
main page
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
The UN for
note-taking
There is also
the UN Annual Report 2025 for note-taking on the language and vocabulary, but
no text in Italian, so no translation unless you want to translate from French,
German or Spanish into English!
https://www.un.org/en/annualreport/2025/introduction
then download all the sections listed on the right
2024
https://www.un.org/en/annualreport2024
2023
https://www.un.org/en/annualreport2023
2022
https://news.un.org/pages/annualreport-2022/
2021
https://unfccc.int/annual-report-2021
or 2020
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2020/
or 2019
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2019/
or 2018
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2018/
If you prefer
you can go straight to the UN site and simply read and take notes on the vocabulary and phraseology that they use. Start
with the UN News Centre:
https://news.un.org/en/news (click on
the right for stories from previous years)
and for listening
practice, go to the UN audio section
https://news.un.org/en/audio-hub
https://news.un.org/en/audio-product/news-brief
You
should also look at all the links on the right on both those pages
There's also the
FAO for note-taking and some translation
and there are some sections
and articles in Italian and English. I searched for ‘the FAO, articles in Italian’ and got this:
https://www.fao.org/fao-italy/it
https://www.fao.org/fao-italy/en
and the related articles in
Italian (usually with an English version too), but generally if you find an
article on the FAO website, you will have to check which have been translated
into Italian.
Some examples:
There are also lots of
articles on the FAO newsroom and archive pages
https://www.fao.org/newsroom/it
https://www.fao.org/newsroom/en
https://www.fao.org/webcast/archive/en/
There’s also the
Bank of Italy site to explore
https://www.bancaditalia.it/ change the
language to English at the top on the right
For example:
https://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/bollettino-economico/2026-2/index.html
There’s also NATO for note-taking
Start with the main page:
for example:
and regarding the history of NATO, its structure and
Italy’s role
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_139339.htm
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/organization/founding-treaty
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/organization/nato-member-countries
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/organization/nato-structure
https://www.nato.int/en/what-is-nato.html
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/organization/who-we-are
https://www.nato.int/en/about-us/organization/nato-on-the-map
use https://www.nato.int/en/search
to do a search
also
https://rappnato.esteri.it/it/litalia-e-la-nato/
you can click to change the language to English
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