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“The EU Commission is conducting a consultation to receive input regarding the priorities of the next community action programme to promote active European citizenship.” The Commission has launched an online consultation to receive input from citizens and interested organisations for the next action programme aiming to promote active European citizenship.”
“The current programme runs out on 31 December 2006 having allocated 72 million euros over a three-year period.”

Which means in short the EU is going to be continuing their effort to persuade us all that the EU is a wonderful project and not only that but they are going to use our money to continue with this endeavour.

First they force us to accept EU citizenship then they force us to pay for their own propaganda to assist in our indoctrination into the benefits of that citizenship and the EU.

“The objective of the 2004-6 programme was to support bodies which actively promote European values and to foster projects whose aim is to involve citizens in discussions about the EU” This is now set to continue with the next round from 2007.

Perhaps this web site should apply as we involve citizens in the discussions about the EU, or perhaps as we don’t actively support “EU Values” that would rule us out. Unfortunately of course we do have to contribute to the EU coffers, which enables the Commision to then spend our money promoting itself and its values to the determent of our values.

These are not small insignificant amounts of our cash the EU is proposing to spend on our re-education, according to the web site of the Slovakian EU Commissioner Jan Figel who is responsible for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism.

Not there is anything wrong with any of these but why do we pay our own government large amounts of taxes to enable them to do these things.

There are four proposed programs with total budget for these programs alone for the 2007-2013 is just below 16 billion
Integrated Action Programme in Lifelong Learning, budget is € 13.62 billion
Youth in Action, budget is € 915 million.
Culture 2007 budget of € 408 million
MEDIA 2007 budget of € 1.055 billion

Then there is the
“The future Programme for Active European Citizenship” which supports
The Community Action Program to Support Bodies Working in the Field of Active European Citizenship
Support to non-governmental organisations and associations and federations of European interest 2005 €2,459,113.57
Support to cross-industry trade unions participating in European social dialogue 2005
€1,494,542.10
Support to Trade Unions
€5,652,708.52
Grants for Town-twinning N/A

The EU wishes to bring its citizens closer to the project
“One of the main challenges facing the European Union remains how to bring the EU closer to its citizens and have them more involved in the development of Europe. This is a huge task, requiring action on a variety of fronts and at many levels, where national and local authorities have a major competence (notably in education policies). The Commission believes however that it has a complementary role to play by proposing a specific and ambitious programme for the promotion of an active involvement of citizens in the development of Europe. This participation could take the form of a direct involvement in the political life of the Union, in particular via citizens’ organisations, or develop itself in a more indirect way, via concrete opportunities to act, share experiences, exchange ideas among citizens (individual level)”.

One could suggest that allowing free and fair elections to the EU Parliament and the wining party to form the government would go a long way to achieving their stated ends, but of course this would not guarantee the integration processes so that’s out.

We feel we are citizen of Britain because we feel we have a united foundation not because the British Government spends inordinate amounts of taxpayers money trying to get us to feel as one nation.

The EU on the other hand wants us to stop feeling British and transfer our allegiances to the EU, that is why they are going to be spending our money on a massive project to make us feel all warm and woolly about our new country, why they are going to be using money to indoctrinate our young people, why they are willing to give large handouts to any association which will help then in their project. Why, because they know that unless they can achieve this aim the union is doomed to failure because we the people who are paying into the EU coffers will eventually get fed up with them transferring our hard earned money to other countries.