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Of course we do not dispute the need for the citizens of the various countries that make up the EU to be better informed about the policies that are promoted in their countries and, it goes without saying, about the consequences of these policies. In fact, quite the opposite is true. We think, however, that simply ‘being informed’ is not enough.
We attach high priority to the need for a genuine participatory debate that airs the very different political positions that are held, all the more so because the issues we are currently debating are of key importance to the future of every country. The report that has just been presented fails to do this and is concerned with raising the EU’s popularity through propaganda campaigns when, in our opinion, the key issue concerns the fundamental political choices made at EU level, which are all neoliberal, federalist and militaristic. First of all, the issue is not ‘how best to construct propaganda’, using the campaign for the euro as an example for ‘enlargement’ and for ‘Europe’s role in the world’.
Furthermore, I must comment on the way in which the Office of the European Commission in Portugal carries out its business, undertaking initiatives on important issues being debated in the EU, whilst discriminating against those who, like us, take a more critical view."@en1
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