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How To Report The News
and while we’re at it:
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Öttinger vs. English as a working language
Günther Öttinger famously declared a few years ago that English will become the global working language (“Englisch wird die Arbeitssprache”).So, his job as the EU commissioner for energy is certainly a great opportunity for him to use his English skills… But just watch for yourself:
The Art of EU acronyms…
Something lighter for a change. What do all these words have in common? AGORES, DAPHNE, EQUAL, HOPE, JEREMIE, JASPERS, JESSICA, RAPID, Marco Polo, PRADO, PRELEX, PROGRESS, SIMAP, TRANSIT, URBAN, Ok, the question was rather rhetorical: There are of course all acronyms for EU programmes, EU grants and some EU databases. In case you still don’t [...]

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