Comments on: The Art of EU acronyms… http://www.kosmopolito.org/the-art-of-eu-acronyms/ The Blog with the European perspective Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:03:42 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Erlend Brekke http://www.kosmopolito.org/the-art-of-eu-acronyms/comment-page-1/#comment-980 Erlend Brekke Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:23:19 +0000 http://www.kosmopolito.org/?p=365#comment-980 My personal favourite is the proposal for Eco Buildings known by the elegant acronym "Bringing Retrofit Innovation to Application in Public Buildings" - or simply "BRITA in Pubs". My personal favourite is the proposal for Eco Buildings known by the elegant acronym “Bringing Retrofit Innovation to Application in Public Buildings” – or simply “BRITA in Pubs”.

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]]> By: Jon Worth http://www.kosmopolito.org/the-art-of-eu-acronyms/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Jon Worth Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:08:12 +0000 http://www.kosmopolito.org/?p=365#comment-294 I particularly liked the EU's Globalisation Adjustment Fund a couple of years ago - bit of a <a>GAFf</a> that was... I particularly liked the EU’s Globalisation Adjustment Fund a couple of years ago – bit of a GAFf that was…

]]> By: James Stevens http://www.kosmopolito.org/the-art-of-eu-acronyms/comment-page-1/#comment-293 James Stevens Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:48:17 +0000 http://www.kosmopolito.org/?p=365#comment-293 Some more to add to your collection - it's not just funding programmes but legislation that gets the treatment...two that spring to mind from my daily work that are banded around Brussels... - REACH - SCALE In case of the latter, we did wonder whether parts of the "non-action" plan were put in there simply so DG Environment (or DG ENVI) could get the acronym that they wanted. At one point we did wonder whether the DG ENVI organigram would show a Unit in charge of acronym creation. On the positive side, it allows people like me to pretend we are smart by reeling them out in meetings and pretending we know what they are all about... Some more to add to your collection – it’s not just funding programmes but legislation that gets the treatment…two that spring to mind from my daily work that are banded around Brussels…

- REACH
- SCALE

In case of the latter, we did wonder whether parts of the “non-action” plan were put in there simply so DG Environment (or DG ENVI) could get the acronym that they wanted.

At one point we did wonder whether the DG ENVI organigram would show a Unit in charge of acronym creation.

On the positive side, it allows people like me to pretend we are smart by reeling them out in meetings and pretending we know what they are all about…

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