Welcome to the £40+ million EU funhouse
Jan 2012 27

Welcome to the £40+ million EU funhouse3

As if the £15 million Parliamentarium (the propaganda temple Jonathan Isaby wrote about last October) wasn’t enough for the Brussels elite to spend on peddling ‘ever closer union’ to the public, plans are in motion to build an even more expensive “House of European History”.

Showing that the propaganda temple was merely a warm up, this new EU funhouse will seek to be:

“a place where a memory of European history and the work of European unification is jointly cultivated, and which at the same time is available as a locus for the European identity to go on being shaped…”

Their own words are enough to prove that the Funhouse is the Brussels elite’s new grandiose attempt to “shape” and “cultivate” a European identity with shameless propaganda. Perhaps it’s to convince the public that the inherently wasteful nature of the EU’s spending is worth it for the “future citizens of the European Union.”

Feeling doubtful about Brussels’ ability in objectively recounting history for visitors? Fear not: the “Committee of Excellence” that has so adamantly supported this project has assured the public in their manuscript that “a high-level Academic Advisory Board” will be appointed to ensure the “multifaceted and impartial presentation of historical facts.” So it should mention the existence of a Eurosceptic movement and some discussion of EU finances then?

Well, not quite. They instead say that there was some slight “confusion in some quarters of West European public opinion” over the “ultimate objective” of the EU post-Maastricht. With the EU funhouse approved by the European Parliament for funding in 2012 on account of it being “already under way”, we get a sense of the shoddy accounting practices of Brussels institutions.

This funhouse, scheduled for completion in 2014 but without a brick laid or a  budget more precise than £58 million to £137 million (of which £18.6 million will be from UK taxpayers), is nothing more than an insulting waste of money at a time when taxpayers are making savings.

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  • http://tangentreality.blogspot.com/ tangentreality

    The Nazis tried the same thing with the Museum of Aryan Art or some such nonsense.  The patsy architecture was designed by Hitler, and all the paintings pre-approved by Goebbels. They even opened a smaller, dingier museum showcasing ‘degenerate’ non-Germanic art next door, but had to close both when their propaganda machine spectacularly backfired: nobody liked the State-approved Nazi art, and loved the degenerate French stuff.

  • http://tangentreality.blogspot.com/ tangentreality

    The Nazis tried the same thing with the Museum of Aryan Art or some such nonsense.  The patsy architecture was designed by Hitler, and all the paintings pre-approved by Goebbels. They even opened a smaller, dingier museum showcasing ‘degenerate’ non-Germanic art next door, but had to close both when their propaganda machine spectacularly backfired: nobody liked the State-approved Nazi art, and loved the degenerate French stuff.

  • Mr D Clare

    The resession must be over, the end to austerity is nigh! Well it must be if we can spend money this way