So that's how our Eurosceptic newspapers get their nonsensical
stories...  One of the annual lectures I give to my City
University students is entitled "Frogs, Huns and Wops: Covering
Europe and the EU". It is replete with examples of the
Eurosceptic coverage in most of the British newspapers.  Given
that there are so few British correspondents in Brussels, and
none working for the popular press, it's a wonder that so many
negative stories about the EU are picked up so often. Or is it?
The Economist's excellent European columnist Charlemagne points
to "a small, but assiduous Eurosceptic campaign group"
masquerading as a think tank called Open Europe, which "does two
exceedingly clever things to influence British press coverage of
Europe." He explains:  Its (admirably multi-national) team of
young researchers reads the English-language, French, Dutch,
Belgian, German and Nordic press every day, and translates and
links to stories that show the EU in a bad light, in a daily
press summary that has very wide cir