The European Union Commissioners have announced that agreement has been reached to adopt English as the preferred language for European communications, rather than German, which was the other possibility.
As part of the negotiations, the British government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five-year phased plan for what will be known as EuroEnglish (Euro for short).
this part gave it away. plus its been around years. plus the isanely obvious irony in it phonetically sounding like an english person speaking in a german accent, and saying that 'german was not chosen'.
might be harder for none uk members to get the joke, but oli seemed to realise it was fake. l2see hoaxes
