Acquis

Acquis means EU legislation, and is one of the most prominent French words left as orphans when their mother tongue French was unofficially abandoned as the lingua franca of the EU institutions somewhere around the turn of the century. Other examples are stagiaireWhile everybody else was thinking of becoming an astronaut or a princess, a trainee, as a child, had only one dream: "Working in the European Institutions". And they never gave it up! They sent their cv, they filled in creative motivation letters, they learned to use the ugly ECAS website,... and interimaireInterimaire are trainees that failed to become Contract Agents and ended up in the institutions' purgatory: they work hard, pay taxes on their salary (the ultimate Eurocrat's shame), and have a weekly renewable contract with some greedy service provider. On top of that they receive permanent staff emails, in which....