Read your forword. The use of NGO's etc for making soft power is quite like the corresponding development in each nation. In Norway the NGO's play the exact same role as the NGO's in EU. The NGO's works is so infiltrated in media and in the public opinion that it is in a way invisible and it makes political discussions impossible in certain political areas, like economic assistanse to underdeveloped nations and the asylum-immigration policy.
So I guess there are no sovereign states within the EU. The EU clump is obliged to follow EU dictates. There must be a way to challenge rules a nation state has issues with. Challenging compliance
Read your forword. The use of NGO's etc for making soft power is quite like the corresponding development in each nation. In Norway the NGO's play the exact same role as the NGO's in EU. The NGO's works is so infiltrated in media and in the public opinion that it is in a way invisible and it makes political discussions impossible in certain political areas, like economic assistanse to underdeveloped nations and the asylum-immigration policy.
"We have the tools"
-Ursula Von der Liar, a failed gynecologist and descendant of a Nazi
"A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth"
"Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will."
-Joseph Goebbels
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"They follow the Hitler line - no matter how big the lie - repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth."
-John F. Kennedy
"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
- George Orwell
EU-NGO-media-academia propaganda complex:
So I guess there are no sovereign states within the EU. The EU clump is obliged to follow EU dictates. There must be a way to challenge rules a nation state has issues with. Challenging compliance