Doublespeak hear and there
The European Union According to a pamphlet published recently by New Europe, a London-based think tank, the European Union is creating its own form of muddled communication. This jargon-based speech, often called "Brussels spout" or "Europeanese," can be found in the EU's publications or heard in the speeches of its commissioners. Some examples culled from various EU websites: Some EU decision-makers are suffering because they have been "deresponsibilised." An organisational chart is now called an "organigramme." The Information Society Directorate of the commission has a section called "Integrated management of resources and horizontal questions." Under reform plans: "In order to enhance the visibility and understanding of EU action, and the complementarity and consistency between the various community policies affecting human resources, valuation procedures will be improved and rendered more systematic." Neil Kinnock,