Comment by johannes1234321

They got 4 languages, not 24. Of those 4 there is one clearly dominant (German) and a clear second. Most debates happen in German.

With it's 24 languages the EU debates have interesting interpretation challenges, as they don't have interpreters for going from any language to any language, but often the translate first into one language (say from Latvian into German) and then some other language (German to Portuguese), which loses a lot of nuance and color from the language.

Also media can cover it better, with few languages and politicians can provide their press statements in those few languages.

And then culture is a lot more similar, which helps to identify the "relevant" topics and way to talk about it.