Thursday, October 16, 2008

Deconstructing Eurospeak

Global Warming Politics
One of the funniest cartoons in Private Eye is always ‘EU-phemisms’. Today, the EU has excelled itself in ‘EU-phemisms’, as it tries to square fantasy policies on climate change with the harsh realities of the credit crunch and world recession [original headline - ‘EU “resolute” on climate targets’, BBC Online Europe News, October 16]. Here is my brief guide to some of the Eurospeak on climate change that has emanated from the European Council Summit in Brussels...

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