Ms Catherine Day:

Exactly. But of course it is shorthand for those who are insiders and if one can say three pieces of jargon, it is much quicker then saying three sentences. However, we are failing because we then look like an impenetrable bureaucratic labyrinth, which we are not. I hope those members who travel to Brussels would agree the institutions actually are fairly open. However, we are somewhat handicapped by being multinational and multilingual, which is also a bit of a problem. While we then manage to agree on corruptions of different languages to speak a secret code that we understand, we have lost the ability to speak directly, clearly and simply to people. I believe national parliaments can play that role in between.