Europe’s unofficial lingua franca is a plethora of shorthand that even ministers struggle to understand
I recently sat down with the outgoing Irish climate minister, Eamon Ryan, in a quiet corner of the European Council building in Brussels. The first thing he wanted to talk about was not the latest movements in energy policy or gossip from the last climate conference but his inability to fathom the EU capital’s never-ending shorthand. “It takes me 24 hours to get back up to speed with Brussels speak,” he said. “Even though I’ve been coming here for 10 years.
The volume of initials can create an atmosphere of “insiderness” that fuels suspicion of faceless Brussels bureaucrats. But more often than not these acronyms are a good thing. They save space and stop readers slowing down or tripping over gargantuan words and multiple translations. It’s certainly easier to remember CSDDD or CS3D than spelling out Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive on a regular basis.
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