Brussels, 27/04/2001 (Agence Europe) - Gunnar Wiegand, spokesman for European Commissioner Chris Patten, formally denied, on Friday, the allegations contained in an article of the weekly, European Voice, of 26 April, whereby the Commission had taken part in an "anti-Jewish hate campaign" through its financial support for Palestinian school books. "These allegations are totally unfounded", states Mr Wiegand, who specifies that "the Commission has never allocated funds for the development of new school curricula, nor for the printing and distribution of school textbooks". The spokesman recalled that Mr Patten had already responded on several occasions to the accusation made by the weekly, before the European Parliament and in written responses to parliamentary questions. He went on to add that "the Commission utterly rejects the promotion of intolerance or hatred, as it rejects poor journalism of the kind represented by this article".