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EU PUTS ITSELF TOP OF OLYMPIC MEDAL TABLE...AND BRITAIN IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN

The EU 'topped' the Olympic medal table
Friday August 17,2012
By Emily Fox for express.co.uk EXCLUSIVE
THE European Union has tried to claim Britain's entire Olympics medal haul for itself.

Berlin-based Euro Informationen, which works for the European Commission and European Parliament, developed an Olympic medal table which declares the 'European Union' as the top nation.

On the agency's website www.medaltracker.eu, it combines the 27 members of the EU into one, meaning that - with 306 medals - it is placed above both the USA and China.

It states: "We count and compare how many medals the EU would win if it took part in the Olympic Games as one team. The European Union is the Winning Team."

Britain, who were in third position at the end of the OIympics with 65 medals in total and 29 golds no longer appear on the table at all.

Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis spoke of her outrage at Brussels' attempt to impose a federal identity on nations.

Sir Chris Hoy competed for the EU, apparently

She said: "As a member of the European Parliament for London, I am proud of the way my home city delivered a great Olympic games.

"Perhaps I was not paying close enough attention, but I do not remember an EU team marching into the stadium at the opening ceremony.

"Nor do I remember hearing the strains of Beethoven's Ode to Joy as winning athletes mounted the podium."

Instead the achievements of our Olympic athletes, including Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah, have been amalgamated with France, Germany and all the other EU members so that they are no longer credited in their own right.

I do not remember hearing the strains of Beethoven's Ode to Joy as winning athletes mounted the podium
Conservative MEP Marina Yannakoudakis

Euro Informationen was set up in 1996 to help educate people and businesses about the Euro.

Its clients include the German government, the European Commission and the European Parliament.

The agency boasts on its website that the Euro project has 'long since been successfully completed'.

This is not the first time the EU has attempted to lay claim to Britain's medals. The European Parliament's office in London triumphantly tweeted on August 13 about the EU's haul of 92 gold medals.

Before the London Olympics, the EU's delegation in Washington published a newsletter with articles entitled Europe: A Sporting Powerhouse and Europe: The Cradle of the Olympic Movement.

The newsletter reproduced the medals table from the Vancouver games, where again the EU came out on top.

The agency denied it was attempting to upset the people of the UK but then disparagingly referred to Britain as 'the island.'

A spokesman said: "We didn't do it just to annoy the Brits. But then we have already received tons of mail from the island."

While Brussels hold the whip and Wesminster is just one of the horses in this chariot to economic oblivion we will never be a nation again, they can do and say as they please, they own us lock, stock and parliament.