EU's Energy Commissioner downgrades Japan's nuclear crisis from "Apocalypse" to "Catastrophe"

In this blog editor's understanding of english, a "catastrophe" seems less severe than an "apocalypse".

Maybe its different in German! In either event it once again demonstrates that in picking EU Commissioners the general rule of picking the dumbest possible candidate still seems to apply!

If you do not believe this is true, read yesterday's remarks, reported here, and today's from here.