'The European Union is spending £3.8 billion a year on "propaganda" to win over its sceptical citizens, it is claimed.
Make-believe MEP Elisa Correr in the cartoon: EU pours £3.8bn into 'brainwashing campaign'
Make-believe MEP Elisa Correr in the cartoon
As well as publishing a plethora of pamphlets and employing an army of public relations staff, the EU has spent hundreds of millions of pounds on teaching aids, school trips and even cartoons.
According to Lee Rotherham, the author of a new book which examines the EU's spending on its image, such initiatives are an "outrageous and cynical attempt to brainwash the young".
