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> As a british citizen, I had heard nothing about the EU outside of what british media told me. A lot of the journalists in those media where wined and dined courtesy of Brussels, and there are several EU and state sponsored campaigns to promote EU across member states. This is just an example: "The spending is part of a near €3 million war chest this year funding 84 projects across Britain and the EU with the aim to…
So you're complaining about a spend of 10% of €3 million, i.e. 250k GBP? That's peanuts even for a society the size of Nothern Ireland, let alone all of Britain. Please take a look at [0], and take a sample of how much of the misinformation listed there originated in English "newspapers". Then again tell us how you think that 250k GBP is unjustified? [0] http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/ECintheUK/euromyths-a-z-index/
No, I'd be complaining about even $1 spent on brainwashing citizens with state money in favor of a particular politics.
But this $3 million is just the tip of the iceberg. Tons of such programs are under the radar, and even more depend on spending money for other purposes (e.g. BS bureaucratic industry, development and "research" programs that just feed mouths and have them feverishly support EU in return with little or no other benefit for the European citizen).