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February 8th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda 
EurActiv.com
07 February 2012
The commissioner who should be the face and voice of the European Union in the world, Baroness Catherine Ashton, is ignored by her own compatriots, according to an internal document on the visibility of EU commissioners seen by EurActiv France.
Only 16% of British citizens have recently seen or heard of Ashton in the national media, says a survey conducted in January by the EU polling agency Eurobarometer.
The results of the poll were circulated among commissioners last week but they are not intended to be published for the wider public.
Ashton’s visibility in national media is the second lowest after the French commissioner Michel Barnier, who has been spotted in domestic media by only a tiny 8% of the French sample.
However, Barnier – who is in charge of the critical internal market and financial services portfolio – can claim to be the commissioner ‘most followed’ on the internet.
His website received more than 20,000 hits in December, which makes him the most popular of the commissioners on the net after Commission President José Manuel Barroso, whose website had almost 35,000 visitors in December.
Barnier’s high online visibility can be explained by the subjects he deals with, which probably make him more interesting to an international audience rather than to those at home. Reform of EU financial rules which hit mainly the City of London unsurprisingly spurs interest in Britain rather in France.
But the same logic cannot be applied to Ashton. Despite being in charge of the most visible dossier on a global scale, the high representative for the European foreign affairs and defense marked a very poor performance on the Web.
Her website had fewer than 8,000 visitors in December, in the same month the European Union moved to step up sanctions against Iran and Syria.
Read more: Brits ignore Baroness Ashton
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