Sometimes people forget to check their spelling. Here are some of the more delightful mistakes that have made it into EU documents. Indeed, some of the mistakes improved the documents.

• Instead of describing a powerful private sector lobbyist as an ‘EU Influencer’, someone described him as an ‘EU Effluencer’.

• A PR company stated it was going to lead a ‘pubic relations’ effort for the European Parliament.

• The introductory part of a Parliament study that featured a picture of President of the Parliament was called the ‘Peeface’.

• A European Commission press release wrote that: ‘The European Omission will…’.

• A press release by a European political party urged the European Commission to come up with a ‘…more manure policy approach’.  

• A statement by the anti-fraud agency OLAF said that national authorities had ‘prostituted hundreds of cases’.

• A job ad for an NGO stated that the chosen candidate would get ‘first hand job experience’.