Euromyth

A euromyth is what the European Commission calls media stories about its policies which it claims are untrue. Such claims are usually seen as disparaging of the European Commission and its supposed bureaucratic absurdity. The European Commission often claims such stories are invented by the media, while Eurosceptics argue such stories are often true, and that hostile media reaction has caused an unpopular policy to be abandoned. Some Eurosceptics now use the term "Euromyth" to describe inflated claims made about the achievements of the EU.