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The EU is a self-perpetuating racket

The First Post | Feb. 11, 2007

By Daniel Hannan

The EU is no longer an ideological project; it’s a racket: a mechanism for redistributing money to the people who work for it. If that sounds harsh, ask yourself when you last met a Euro-enthusiast who was not being indirectly paid by Brussels.

This week, David Miliband stood at the Dispatch Box and listed the NGOs backing the Lisbon Treaty (nee European Constitution): “The NSPCC pledged its support, as have One World Action, Action Aid and Oxfam. Environmental organisations support the treaty provisions on sustainable development and even the commission of bishops supports the treaty. This is a coalition not of ideology, but integrity”.

Integrity, eh? I’ve done a little digging around, and it turns out that every one of these organisations gets money from Brussels.

The ‘commission of bishops’ to which the Foreign Secretary refers, for example, turns out to be something called the ‘Commission

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