How British Taxpayers Funded ‘Marxist’ Manifesto for European Superstate

Daily Mail
January 13, 2014

British taxpayers have unwittingly funded a controversial new manifesto for the European Union which demands increased rights for illegal immigrants and a universal income for the unemployed – whether or not they seek work.

The 145-page manifesto also calls for a ban on fracking and greater powers for Brussels.

The document will be distributed to MEPs and candidates in the run-up to the European Parliament elections in May. It is one of dozens of ‘propaganda projects’ on which the EU has ‘squandered’ tens of millions of taxpayers’ money.

Last night, one Tory MP said the manifesto ‘bordered on the criminal’ and was nothing more than ‘propaganda to build up a European superstate’. Called European Democracy, Solidarity and Equality, the document was drawn up at public expense by a little-known organisation based in Britain called European Alternatives Ltd. It received a £95,000 European Union grant to part-finance the project.

Its Utopian proposals – some verging on Marxist – were drafted by  ‘60 citizens’ panels and 12 transnational forums’ and include:

• Increased rights for all non-EU migrants in Europe – including those who arrived illegally (the manifesto prefers the term ‘irregular’).
• Greater power for the European Parliament so it can enact even more legislation.
• No more detention centres for any migrants or forced eviction of Roma people from EU countries.
• An outright ban on fracking.
• A ‘universal basic income’ paid  to all adults, of about 60 per cent of the median national wage, regardless of whether they are in work.
• Increased VAT on luxury goods to pay for increased welfare benefits.

The project is one of dozens of campaigns and events handed almost £30 million a year by the EU with the aim of forging a united Europe free of national borders.

The revelation comes amid a rising tide of Euroscepticism in Britain, fears of mass migration and the prospect of an in-out referendum in 2017 if the Tories win the General Election in 2015.

One of the most bizarre events was the Transeuropa Festival, held simultaneously in London and 12 other cities across Europe last October. The London gathering was supported by the protest movement Occupy London, whose action outside St Paul’s Cathedral in 2012 attracted anarchist protesters and cost taxpayers £600,000 in policing and clean-up bills.

The festival had a strongly anti-capitalist tone and included sessions on ‘migrant resistance’, the ‘poverty of capitalism’, ‘Roma rights’ and ‘workers’ co-ops’.

The four-day event received £124,000 of EU funds and started with a section called ‘Air Time’, which involved participants laying down in Parliament Square and creating an imaginary space ‘free from government structures’.

European Alternatives (EA), which brings together hundreds of political activists from across Europe, was responsible for both the festival and the manifesto.

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