Subsidiarity Man Wants A Word With You

By day, Richard Medić is a mild mannered spokesman for the Assembly of European Regions, but it is his alter-ego that has been making the news. As Subsidiarity Man, he has founded a movement to have the word subsidiarity included in all the world’s dictionaries, with the slogan, “Subsidiarity is a word”.

Subsidiarity Man being driven [...]

The Language of Politics

In the frequent war of words there is another conflict, often fought underground; the war against words. Specifically euro-jargon, the stock phrases of the polished eurocrat, the language that makes an ordinary sentence sound like it’s strangling itself.
All places have their own jargon, but in the European Union it seems to have become so popular [...]