EU Spends Tens of Millions in US on Left-Wing Causes

From the UK’s Daily Mail:

Brussels is pouring nearly 20million a year from its human rights budget on lecturing the Americans on left-wing causes.

The EU Human Rights Fund is intended to help promote Western values in the developing world. But a shock report has found at least 17million of cash – around 2million from British taxpayers’ – has been ploughed into promoting the pet causes of Eurocrats in the U.S.

It is being spent on promoting abolition of the death penalty, discussion of climate change, green energy, and the International Criminal Court – all controversial subjects in the U.S.

The study by the Heritage Foundation, a centre-right Washington think-tank, found a further 4million has been ploughed into pro-EU propaganda in the U.S., including funds for advertising and publicity material.

More than 3million has been funnelled to American universities to promote the benefits of European integration and a further 3million to think-tanks who want to study EU affairs.

The European Commission’s own accounts show millions have also been paid to unnamed individual opinion formers in the U.S.

The report’s British author Sally McNamara said: ‘It is impossible to justify EU human rights budgets being spent in one of the world’s freest nations.’

Tory MP Douglas Carswell said: ‘The U.S. was founded by North Americans fed up with Europeans interfering in its internal affairs.

Read the whole thing here. Personally, we’d be very curious to know the identities of the “unnamed opinion formers” receiving payments from the EU.