Ioannis Ikonomou, the European Commission translator as of 2014, is fluent
in 32 languages.

The European Commission translator knows 32 different languages – Ioannis
Ikonomou, a Greek who is the commission’s translator as of 2014, is
fluent in the European Commission’s 23 official languages of Bulgarian,
Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek,
Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish,
Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish. Additional
languages he is fluent include Arabic, Russian, Turkish, and Chinese. In
fact, Ikonomou is the only translator entrusted with Chinese in the
European Commission.