eu cost
Stop the Cheques
25th July 2006
The Democracy Movement
In December, Tony Blair went to a European Union summit in Brussels and agreed to a big increase in Britain's payments
to the EU budget - from the current level of £3.5 billion a year, to over £6 billion a year. This is an astonishing
£115 million every week, even taking into account the money we receive back from the EU in grants and subsidies.
Blair agreed to this increase despite regular reports of EU fraud, despite failing to reform the EU's wasteful Common
Agricultural Policy and despite the inability of auditors to approve the EU's accounts for 11 years running.
EU propaganda in schools
7th August 2006
Following the recent exposure of
Europe Minister Geoff Hoon's efforts to encourage his colleague Alan
Johnson to break the 1996 Education
Act and propagate the 'benefits' of
EU integration to schoolchildren [The
Times], the DM has revealed an on
going investigation into exam
questions on the EU being set by
EdExcel, Britain's largest exam
provider.
Launched in response to a tip-off by
a DM supporter whose son reported
a biased question on the EU in his
politics exam.
This comes on top of the DM's exposure back in March of an EU poster competition, backed by the government and the
British Youth Council, aimed at promoting the EU Constitution and "the importance of European political integration"
to children as young as 10 years old.
The alleged benefits of the European Union that Mr Hoon wants included in the curriculum are quite obviously
controversial political points. Yet under the 1996 Education Act (Part V, Article 406-1)"the promotion of partisan
political views" is forbidden "in the teaching of any subject" in schools