Logic problem: Gordon's gold sell-off revisited

Help me out here.

If Gordon Brown sold off the UK's gold after alerting the markets as to his intentions and used the proceeds to buy Euros, didn't he, in effect, make an indirect financial contribution to the EU?

I.e., pouring money into Euros so that the ECB wouldn't have to - given its stated aversion to printing 'money'?

If so, what did he get in return? What was promised?

Quite a lot of jiggery-pokery going on, if you ask me.