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"Mr President, what an extraordinary stream of hackneyed phrases we had a few moments ago from the President of the Italian Republic – one after another: ‘resisting nationalism and populism’; ‘keeping alive the European dream’; ‘building a true economic governance’. George Orwell called it ‘duckspeak’, which means allowing sound to issue from the larynx without the higher brain centres being engaged at all. It is almost like listening to Nick Clegg. It was a stream of clichés that indicates that the speaker is not thinking at all about what he is saying. There was a certain pathos in an octogenarian former Stalinist still trotting out these official slogans in a continent that has changed beyond recognition. Actually, maybe that is not such a bad parallel. The nomenklatura, as you will well remember, in the 1980s, even when it was all collapsing, were still trotting out the official slogans. Why? Because in truth they did not know what else to do!"@en1
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