http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/01/03/news/myths.html
Graham Bowley
"Today it is Brazil nuts; on other days the EU is accused in Britain's tabloid press of banning fake snow, rocking horses and even children's playtime.
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Recently published articles have reported, among many other things, that the EU could ban homemade cakes from church functions; that it was insisting that Europeans sing a new Euro-hymn in which they pledge allegiance to a Stalinist-sounding 'motherland'; and that it was ordering the British government to change the names of Waterloo Station and Trafalgar Square because these insulted the French.
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These stories have emerged from a British press that appears to revile most aspects of the grand European project, and will use every journalistic exaggeration, trick and sleight of hand to blacken the EU's name. Occasionally the stories contain truth, but often they are plain wrong."
