- The EU is spending at least €1.23 billion on mental health even though a growing body of evidence shows such interventions only serve to make people feel worse.
- The EU is pushing so-called ‘mental-health awareness’ as a key area of prevention, when a growing evidence-base shows it actually drives greater incapacity. This means member states are paying to make their citizens weaker and less resilient.
- The EU’s case for a ‘mental-health crisis’ rests on inflated claims, treating ordinary worries, sadness, anxiety and political discontent as evidence of population-level illness.
- The EU’s mental-health agenda isn’t about mental health. It’s a whole- society governance agenda that treats schools, workplaces and the digital world as sites for psychological intervention.
- It hides the EU-values agenda in mental-health language, giving the elites’ preferred values a medical veneer.
- The EU wants children’s emotional states to be formally graded alongside maths and reading.
- Parents have not been consulted about this far-reaching agenda, which amounts to a total rewriting of the purpose of education, nor have parliaments voted on this.
- Millions are being spent on training every professional in Europe to be a mental-health monitor.
- The EU confuses advocacy groups with civil society and funnels taxpayer money toward programmes with a direct financial interest in discovering ever more ‘unmet need’. The agenda came from them and does not match what citizens say would make their lives better.
- Policymakers must listen to the people: refocus resources on severe mental illness and abandon universal/population-level behaviour- management programmes.
