The European Union has 27 member countries and 23 languages are officially spoken in the EU. So as you can see, the number of member countries exceeds the number of official languages, because several languages are shared by two or more countries. German is the most widely spoken language, while the absolute majority understands English. Very Important document are translated into every official language (such as legislation documents).

In the following, all official spoken languages in the EU are listed, together with the country(ies) the language is spoken in, and the year the language got officially adopted in the Europen Union.