Czech Depiction of Europe Causes Controversy

[Loyalist]

A new art installation lampooning European stereotypes has angered EU members prior to its display at the European Council building in Brussels.

Entropa portrays Bulgaria as a toilet, Romania as a Dracula theme-park and France as a country on strike.

The Czech Republic, which holds the EU presidency, thought it had commissioned work from 27 European artists.

But it turned out to have been entirely completed by Czech artist David Cerny and two associates.

The eight-tonne mosaic is held together by snap-out plastic parts similar to those used in modelling kits.

The Netherlands is shown as series of minarets submerged by a flood - a possible reference to the nation's simmering religious tensions.

Germany is shown as a network of motorways vaguely resembling a swastika, while the UK - criticised by some for being one of EU's most eurosceptic members - is absent from Europe altogether.

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[Brynhild]

They have a sense of humour? I'm amazed!

[TheGreatest]

I'm starting to like the Czechs

[GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS]

Nice one. I wonder how Sweden was portrayed.

Ah, an IKEA box.

[TheGreatest]

If we can't even insult our neighbors than how can we deal with hostile invaders?

[HawkR]

But Germany was shown totally wrong, considering the politics, oops, sorry. The jewistics Should rather have the form of a jewstar.

Luckily Norway ain't in the EU

[Inese]

I can only see some countries but not all of EU! What´s with baltic countries?
(But the artwork of Netherland is good! )

[Treffie]

....while the UK - criticised by some for being one of EU's most eurosceptic members - is absent from Europe altogether.

Good! Does this mean that someone's getting the message?

[Beorn]

You should be happy, Sveyn. At least this time you are with company.

Eurocrats leave Wales off EU map




A bureaucratic blunder has left Wales off a map of Europe on the cover of a prestigious EU reference book.

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[HawkR]

But if Wales ain't Europe, what is it then?