Guy Bentley at backbencher.co.uk explainshow the EC is investing millions in pro-EU groups.
On Wednesday the Institute of Economic Affairs released a new report 
authored by Christopher Snowdon titled ‘Euro Puppets: The European 
Commission’s remaking of civil society’.
This report exposes the vast scale to which the European Commission 
uses taxpayers money to fund charities, think tanks and other lobby 
groups which campaign not only for closer European integration but a 
vast array of regulations and spending programs.
The groups the Commission decides to fund skew heavily to the left 
and a significant proportion of these groups would fail to exist if it 
were not for the taxpayer money the European Commission so freely hands 
out to its favoured groups.
  

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