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Europe has an emissions problem one that will leave you feeling not warmer, but colder. I’m talking, of course, about jargon.
The EU released its gigantic “Fit for 55” plan this week, aiming to slash 55 percent of the bloc’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. But you wouldn’t have known that from the name, which has already generated enough heated ridicule to power Europe’s homes for a decade.
Someone high up in the Commission’s comms department has got a “fit” fetish. The phrases “fit for purpose” and “fitness checks” are recycled endlessly in an attempt to create a circular economy of language. “Fit” is also British-English slang for “hot” or “attractive” so you can understand the disappointment some EU citizens must have felt when the Commission failed to unveil a grizzled new commissioner for life modeling, but instead released hundreds of pages of deeply
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