European politicians speak-out to support the fight against EU
propaganda
“Only recently the European Commission has appointed
the Czech PR Agency “Via Perfecta ”to be in charge of the EU information and
communication strategy in the Czech Republic (and funded it).However, this
agency is led by a wife of one prominent and most pro-european politician in
the CR. This implies possible misuse of the EU funds for self-promotion of
certain politicians or political opinions that are familiar to the EU
bureaucracy.”
Jan Zahradil, MP – Foreign Affairs Spokesman for the
ODS Party in the Czech Republic
“It is now clear that not only the European Commission but the British
Council, under the direction of the Foreign Office, is funding a European
Resource Centre, which is cover for an EU propaganda unit.”
The Rt Hon. David Heathcoat-Amory, MP – Convention
on the Future of Europe
“In a referendum people should have the right to hear both sides of the
argument in a balanced and fair manner. I took the Irish government to court
because they not only restricted the voters access to balanced information,
but they used the voter’s own money to persuade them to vote in a particular
way. In a referendum the people are being asked for their opinion. This
process is made pointless if having asked for their opinion you then tell them
there is only one answer they can give and you use their money to convince
them that this is true.”
Patricia McKenna, MEP – Green Party Member of the
European Parliament representing Dublin
“There is no doubt a lot of money is being poured out from Europe
through our Universities, through the media and many other channels to
persuade the British people to accept a European identity that they
instinctively reject. Most of the spending is a scandalous waste of
money.”
The Rt Hon. Lord Lamont of Lerwick – Chancellor of
the Exchequer (1990 – 1993)
“It is absurd and abuse of taxpayers ’money, yet each year more and
more is spent by the European Commission in its bid to con the European public
into thinking that a deeper federal Europe is the only way forward.”
Chris Heaton-Harris, MEP –Conservative Spokesman on
Budgetary Control in the European Parliament
“The European Commission office in Copenhagen works entirely for the
Yes side and we even experienced in the 1980 ’s that the Office sent insulting
letters about the No side to editors and political opponents without informing
us.”
Jens-Peter Bonde, MEP -Danish “No
”Campaigner
“A group of deputies from various parliamentary groups proposed in
January a motion for an urgent EU referendum. However, it was voted down by
the Chamber. This debate on the motion has so far been the fairest discussion
of EU pros and cons. We are now collecting a half a million signatures for a
motion to hold an EU referendum. Meanwhile the government started last month
its 1 m Euro promotional campaign to convince Poles that the terms of EU
membership, still under negotiation, are advantageous for Poland.”
Jan Lopuszanski, MP – Member of the Sejm Committee
for Foreign Affairs, (Parliamentary Group of the League of Polish Families
(LPR) and Chairman of the Polish Alliance (PP))
“European propaganda is organised according to a methodical plan. One
of its principal victims in France is the University. The purpose of the Jean
Monnet Chairs, to which Brussels devotes each year four million euros, is to
teach European integration, imposing federalist contents on the lessons in all
the fields of social sciences: history, law, political science, economy, etc
…”
“Control by the European Commission takes the form of a scientific
committee carefully selected by the Commission, which validates the
attribution of the “Jean Monnet ” labels and grants subsidies only to the
teachers who present sufficient political guarantees on the matter. Thus, not
only those which receive these subsidies become a client of the European
Commission, but those which do not receive the hope they’ll obtain some if
they are nice enough to Brussels.”
“This system is a very serious breach in the principle of University
independence, which in France is of a Constitutional nature. More broadly, it
is clear that much support to European integration is bought with subsidies.
It is paradoxical to see that these subsidies whose ultimate purpose is to
destroy the Nations are ratified by the Council when it approves the
Commission's Budget”.
Georges Berthu, MEP – French MEP and Minister for
Administrative Reform (1986-1987), Senior
Administrator at the Ministry of Finance (1991-1994)
“There is a point which puzzles me somewhat. Whenever a referendum in
favour or against the EU has been held, one can see an enormous gap between
the media, 90% of which has often supported the EU, and the ordinary citizens,
who at times have made up even more than 50% in terms of votes against. This
shows that the media, far from reflecting European public opinion, exert a
considerable pressure on it, distorting the foundations of democracy. This
makes one not only puzzled, but also seriously concerned.”
Roberto de Mattei – Special Advisor to the Italian
Deputy Prime Minister
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The supporting statements were made specifically in support of the Bruges
Group Occasional Paper Federalist Thought Control: The Brussels Propaganda
Machine
An on-line version is available on www.brugesgroup.com
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Control, please contact:
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