Question for non US forum members regarding packaging

I do graphic design for a living and am in the middle of creating some product packaging that will be sold in Europe which is a first for our company. Many of our packages already are bi-lingual (English & Spanish for the US) and some are tri-lingual (English, Spanish & Canadian French), for our retailers that have stores in Canada. Putting three languages on a package can be a bit vexing layout-wise, especially since Canada has laws requiring the typeface to be the same size as the English, plus the measurements need to be gigantic on a package.

With the new European packaging, I find myself faced with having to put 5-10 languages on each package. The question is, what is the packaging like in Europe when companies try to fit all these languages on them? Do you have little booklets attached to each product? Do you have such minimal descriptive copy, that you can actually read it without a magnifying glass?

Thanks in advance for your responses. I can't wait to tell you about the product line, which is pet related, and turning out to be really fun. A few of the packages actually features our Frank, and as you can imagine, I don't want to have to shrink the photos down to fit all of the languages! :wag:
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Every time we'd ship anything in Europe we'd have to write everything in English. I've never had any problems with that. Even now when we ship to Hungary, Croatia, UK and France we don't have any issues.

Maybe you should just write in English and whatever the destination country's language is. And don't shrink Frank's picture!!!! :wink:
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