Two nutty anti-EU myths dispelled in one day

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Myth 1: The EU blindly supports the climate change lobby (Oh noes! Teh Brussels bureaucrats am all Greenpeace activists!)

Erm: EU dismisses Brown green VAT plan
“Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s plan to slash VAT on environmentally-friendly goods has been given the thumbs down at an EU summit in Brussels”

Myth 2: The EU blindy supports Muslim interests (Oh noes! Teh Dhimmis am making teh EUrabia!)

Erm: EU solidarity over anti-Koran film
“Holland’s prime minister said he had won broad EU solidarity from the bloc’s leaders in case the expected release of an anti-Koran film by a maverick Dutch politician leads to violence”

4 thoughts on “Two nutty anti-EU myths dispelled in one day”

  1. “Erm: EU dismisses Brown green VAT plan
    “Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s plan to slash VAT on environmentally-friendly goods has been given the thumbs down at an EU summit in Brussels””

    Of course. The EU prefers to maximise revenue or utilise bans. So, for instance, they slap 66% import tariffs on Chinese environmentally-friendly light bulbs and ban incandescent ones.

    DK

  3. Ken – good point, though the stronger one would be “there was me thinking Gordon Brown had repeatedly stated he didn’t want the EU meddling in tax”. After all, the EU rejected his proposal to set an EU-wide tax policy…

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