Here is a lesson from today’s European Commission midday press conference on how EU propaganda works, and works at all times and at every opportunity.
Whenever a commissioner appears on the podium to make a statement, a specially-designed slide is projected onto the giant screen over his head. Today Commissioner Johannes Hahn (an Austrian, you’ve never heard of him) was on the podium to tell the press corps about his plans to make payments out of the EU disaster relief fund, known as the Solidarity Fund, faster and simpler.
Fine. But what was more instructive than anything Hahn had to say was what was projected in giant letters behind him, over a picture of an unidentified town halfway under water: ‘EU Solidarity Fund: faster and simpler for disaster-hit regions.’
Note the chosen word was ‘regions.’ Not disaster-hit ‘countries.
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