The potential leverage of the Commission is so huge it makes me weep to contemplate it. It can put its finger in every pie in every country, at every level from local to national (up to global), in every walk of life. It can certainly influence AND it can lead by example.
And being in the language industry myself, I can tell you that the Commission is constantly having to make up new terms (then it's accused of jargon-mongering) for new things. Like Subsidiarity. Many of my translator colleagues roll their eyes and spit, even when asked to translate terms like "Governance". Because they just don't have the concept in their language (I'm thinking of the Finns and the Portuguese in this instance). Boggle, mind! But the point is, there are phenomena emerging out of our transnational work that cannot be described using existing terminology that belongs to national phenomena.
Are you really offering to sum up all our zootle-woordles here? That could be a stupendous service to the whole.
I thought (and your corrections, yeshe, are just what I need, so correct away!), yes I thought that the Commission was stuck with its national blocks, but you are suggesting (if I've understood correctly...big IF) that there is some heavy cross-fertilisation going on.
I was offering my services to the ET project to write an Energise Europe document or documents, but if you can point me in the direction of your zootle-woordles I can tell you just how far (or even close) I may be from (or even to) summing them up in some way.
At any rate, you have me intrigued and interested in the...possibilities, so by all means...er...my going rate at present is one big bundle of lossalaffs on a regular basis, plus drinks at any human meet up moment thing, so, hey! Tell me more, or just point me in various directions.
(Well now, you know I was just pretonding to not know the power of the commission...
verb: pretond to be unaware that you knew something and when you find out to realise you didn't quite know what you were unaware you knew, which is why you probably forgot you knew it in the first place.)
And a good weekend to yez! Don't fight forces, use them R. Buckminster Fuller.
Can't blame you for getting mished up in the intricate weights and balances of who blocks what in the European Union.
Good weekend to you too.
