Interpreting for the European Parliament. Precision or Illusion

The European Parliament offers a unique multilingual and multicultural context with its twenty-four official languages interpreted. This institutional context does not correspond to any national reality but affects the meaning. How could an interpreter improve cognitive contextual awareness and convey the message better? How does identifying context models reflected in discourse categories improve interpreting? Comparing political discourse in Polish and Spanish shows that an interpreter must identify and understand context models so that they can convey the message adequately in the target language. Thus, identifying discourse categories is a crucial tool in interpreter training.