STOCKHOLM, Sweden, July 27 (UPI) -- The European Union wastes millions of dollars annually on propaganda it calls public service information, a Swedish free-market think-tank said Monday.
"The EU's propaganda apparatus has until now gone uncriticized, despite the fact that it acts in a way that would not be tolerated in any member state," the think-tank Timbro said in a report.
The report praised the EU for wanting to inform the public about its work, but said taxpayer money should not be spent persuading people of the Union's virtues in an intrusive manner, the Swedish news agency TT reported Monday.
In the future, the EU should draw a clearer distinction between propaganda and public service information, Timbro managing director Maria Rankka said.
