The European Union is complicated and can seem impenetrable to outsiders. But the organisation is taking a number of active steps to improve openness and transparency.
Deutsche Welle reports that EU bureaucrats are starting by tackling the problem of language laden with jargon.
The ultimate aim is to communicate more effectively with all 500 million citizens.
The EU has 23 official languages, but English is the main language for EU civil servants. The difficulty is that English is not their mother language.
An internal campaign began two years ago to encourage staff to write more clearly: shorter and simpler documents with less jargon.
However, lobbyist Paul Strickland told Deutsche Welle that busting jargon needs to have a higher priority within the European Commission and suggested a full time commissioner is needed.
