"All bureaucracies tend to spawn their own buzzword vocabulary. Insiders use it as shorthand to communicate more readily, but coded language also sets them apart from “civilians”. The meteoric rise of a special branch of administration tasked with overseeing the running of the other branches could be no exception. Like the USA, the European Union now has its own BetReg (for Better Regulation) jargon, sampled and explained below. It is a safe bet that the coming years will see new terms added to the BetReg vocabulary that will be the delight of linguists and the despair of lay readers of the European Commission's prose."

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