{"id":1610,"date":"2012-10-12T09:00:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T09:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2017-01-19T15:21:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:21:51","slug":"the-state-of-the-european-union-united-we-stand-divided-we-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=1610","title":{"rendered":"The Population of the European Union"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe<\/a> appears to be far from being a perfect union these days, with many countries suffering severely from high debt levels<\/a> as a lasting legacy of the financial crisis<\/a> that brought the slowly shifting economic equalisation between East and West<\/a> to a halt. In a symbolic move the Nobel Committee made the decision to award the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize<\/a> to the European Union. It reflects a plea for European Unity<\/a> which is seen as a great achievement for a continent where countries had repeatedly been at war for centuries. The Committee argues<\/a> that the EU “for over six decades contributed to the advancement of peace and reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe<\/em>“. The European Union is a project to unite the population of the continent peacefully in all its diversity, a population which is shown in the following map. The map displays a gridded population cartogram of the EU27 member states without any borders drawn onto it. The map is as a reminder that here we really are all in this together<\/a><\/em> regardless the place we live on the continent (and the islands surrounding it), instead of all against each other<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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