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Madam President, this report foreshadows the recruitment and subsidy of selected consumer agencies with a view to promoting the EU’s consumer product legislation and preparing consumers for the adoption of the euro. In other words, the EU institutions are planning to use taxpayers’ money to hire advocates of their own policies. This is nothing but a propaganda exercise of the worst kind because in this way, the state becomes both judge and plaintiff, and independent thought or opposition becomes an underground activity.
Is there no substantial understanding of the dangers of this among the Members who sit here now, or in Parliament as a whole? Are they so utterly blind to all but the cosy platitudes of the EU’s carefully engineered, hugely bribed sectoral lobbies? Mr Kristensen’s contribution is scarcely more than a tiny pebble in a landslide of such similar instruments, but it illustrates well enough what is going on.
One day Members who now gape at me uncomprehendingly will experience the icy chill up the spine that I experienced today, and the sooner the better.
I have said on many other occasions that if the EU was the answer, it must have been a silly question. We can now also see how very dangerous it is."@en1
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