{"id":6137,"date":"2007-03-07T14:06:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T14:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/eu-business-loses-out-because-we-shout-and-point\/"},"modified":"2007-03-07T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T14:06:07","slug":"eu-business-loses-out-because-we-shout-and-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/eu-business-loses-out-because-we-shout-and-point\/","title":{"rendered":"EU business loses out because we shout and point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a title=\"EU press release\" href=\"http:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP\/07\/230&#038;format=HTML&#038;aged=0&#038;language=EN&#038;guiLanguage=en\" target=\"_blank\">EU study says that businesses are losing thousands of euro of business due to poor language skills<\/a>. Not surprising, really, although I have to say that I&#8217;ve found it to be exceptional that a business I&#8217;ve dealt with has not had a fluent English speaker (and I&#8217;ve dealt with thirteen of the 27 nations), except in Spain which seemed stuck in the dark ages when I visited last year. Having said that, it is presumptuous and perhaps short-sighted of UK-based businesses to rely on the superior education systems that exist elsewhere and that give most Europeans educated in the last twenty years at least a basic grasp of English.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An EU study says that businesses are losing thousands of euro of business due to poor language skills. Not surprising, really, although I have to say that I&#8217;ve found it to be exceptional that a business I&#8217;ve dealt with has not had a fluent English speaker (and I&#8217;ve dealt with thirteen of the 27 nations), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}