Friday, September 30, 2011

FURY AT ‘BRAINWASHING’ PLAN FOR EU CITIZENSHIP LESSONS IN EVERY SCHOOL


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CHILDREN could be forced to attend compulsory lessons in “European citizenship” under draconian plans drawn up by Euro-MPs in Brussels, it emerged last night.

In a move likened to Nazi indoctrination, the European Parliament wants pupils as young as five to be taught about EU “benefits” and encouraged to behave as “good Europeans”.

MEPs also want a network of specialist “European schools” across the EU to “encourage the emergence of European citizenship from a very young age”.

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And they are demanding that lessons on the history and institutions of the EU are included in the national curriculum. The extraordinary diktat from Brussels was condemned as a propaganda drive designed to brainwash youngsters into supporting an EU superstate.

ì This is a proposal for more EU propaganda in our schools and the sort of indoctrination of children that was carried out by the Third Reich. î

Tory MP Peter Bone

Plans for the lessons were set out in a report from a committee of MEPs and backed by a vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday, although angry Tory MEPs voted against the plan.

The news comes just as a Eurocrat stormed off BBC show Newsnight after being called an idiot five times.

MEP Emma McClarkin, Tory education spokesman in the European Parliament, said: “This looks like a licence to force-feed pupils a very one-sided, starry-eyed version of what the EU is and does for its people.

“We fear it will be a carte blanche to push the federalist agenda that is so close to the hearts of the Eurocrats. When you are targeting youngsters and their education, that amounts to political interference; when you are talking about pushing propaganda at children, that is a little sinister.

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