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"Mr President, I should like to continue where the previous speaker left off. I am glad that no money from the campaign is formally being used for propaganda in the Danish debate. This report is one of the most interesting documents I have read for a long time. It could form part of a handbook for democrats or perhaps, rather, be used as an object lesson in anti-democratic manipulation. I read here that the euro is an ‘essential, identity-building factor in the process of European integration’. It is also noted that there is no overwhelming support for the euro in the euro area and certainly not in the countries surrounding this area. As the opinion of the Committee on Culture, Youth, Education, the Media and Sport very clearly puts it, the Commission is therefore urged, “when carrying out the advertising and information campaign, to take account of the fact that large parts of the population continue to be sceptical about the common currency”. Or, to put it another way: the objective, as stated in the report itself, is that “the right means of communication can be used to respond to the European public’s national and cultural features”. Or, in a nutshell, manipulation. The situation is that, in this programme, more than EUR 100 million has been used to influence the people of Europe. That is to say, the Commission is using Europeans’ money to manipulate Europeans. As I see it, that is the very opposite of how we really visualise this project. Democracy depends upon decision-making by the people, not upon manipulation by the institutional machine. If I say this, it is because, as is well known, we are holding a referendum in Denmark on 28 September on joining the euro, and it goes without saying that it is the public debate which forms the basis for this. We will not be manipulated. Such tellingly described manipulation has not been seen since the totalitarian regimes collapsed years ago. This is a most deplorable report."@en1
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