We invest in new skills, foster openness to innovation and build our capacity for change. We will meet future challenges and adapt to further enlargements by streamlining demand and by adapting and harmonising our organisation and working methods. We will continue to build on our collective excellence and experience in order to embrace the future proactively. Over the past 60 years, we have successfully met the challenges implicit in our expansion from 4 languages to 24. By directly enabling Parliament to pursue its policy of multilingualism, we play an integral role in protecting the cultural and linguistic diversity of the Union and in facilitating transparency, understanding and the exchange of views. We are an efficient and modern service providing high-quality translations of legislation in all EU languages. Our vision is about building bridges between different languages and cultures and promoting sustainable multilingualism as an essential component of the European democratic ideal. Its in-house translation service is instrumental in this respect, meeting strict quality standards within the tight deadlines imposed by parliamentary procedures. The European Parliament produces translations of written documents in all 24 EU languages, enabling communication with its citizens in their mother tongue.