Sunday, 20 March 2011

Daniel Hannan


Daniel Hannan is a writer and journalist, and has been Conservative MEP for South East England since 1999. He speaks French and Spanish and loves Europe, but believes that the European Union is making its constituent nations poorer, less democratic and less free.

EU media manipulation: a case of motes and beams

By Daniel Hannan Last updated: March 19th, 2011

As Bruno reports, the European Parliament spends £70,800,000 a year on spin doctors, and £7,900,000 on a TV channel watched by fewer than 900 people. One Commission official was sacked for writing a book (in his own time) which criticised the euro. Yet, without any hint of self awareness, MEPs huff and puff about Hungary’s new media laws…