Deciphering EU-Diplomacyspeak

Posted on Sunday 18 December 2005

If, whilst reading the reports about any EU negotiation, one ever comes across the words “French President Jacques Chirac praised the British Prime Minister” then it’s a pretty fair bet that Tony Blair has, once again, fucked up utterly.


  1.  
    19th December, 2005 | 10:28 am
     

    Given the culinary predilictions of French presidents (see the infamous “Mitterand’s last meal” story) I initially misread “praised” as “braised” for a second.

    It’s probably more likely, after all.

  2.  
    23rd December, 2005 | 7:01 pm
     

    Politicians and fucked up in one posting. WHy wasn’t Bush somehow included in that one?

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