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The European Union’s single market connects roughly 450 million consumers across 24 official languages. For businesses trading across borders, translation is not an afterthought. It is infrastructure. And in 2026, artificial intelligence has made that infrastructure faster and cheaper than ever.

— last modified 25 July 2012 In 2011, EU Customs detained almost 115 million products suspected of violating intellectual property rights (IPR) compared to 103 million in 2010. The number…