{"id":6523,"date":"2011-03-12T21:15:46","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T21:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/united-diagrams-of-europe-i-had-no-idea-that\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:00:31","slug":"united-diagrams-of-europe-i-had-no-idea-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/united-diagrams-of-europe-i-had-no-idea-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6523 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/united-diagrams-of-europe-i-had-no-idea-that\/attachment\/6524\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhyr2bsovn1qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhyr2bsovn1qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/tumblr_lhyr2bsovn1qzxaqho1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/31556\" target=\"_blank\">United Diagrams of Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had no idea that there were this many overlapping and intersecting unions&hellip;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All will be aware of the \u2018Europe\u2019 that is a less than homogenous conglomerate of nation states, with an unwieldy Brussels bureaucracy at its centre. This European Union, which consists of 27 member states, is merely the most visible of several European unions, all committed to different versions of the same goal: European integration.<\/p>\n<p>The EU is formally committed to strive for \u2018ever closer union\u2019 but its members still disagree on how much more than a free trade zone it wants to be. This continuing struggle for the soul of the EU (if that doesn\u2019t sound like too much of an oxymoron) is epitomised by the smaller, green circle contained within the blue EU one. These are the countries of the Eurozone, 17 at present, who\u2019ve jumped in at the deep end of the sovereignty pool by discarding their own currencies in favour of a single one.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/03\/12\/venn-diagram-illustr.html\" target=\"_blank\">Boing Boing<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Diagrams of Europe I had no idea that there were this many overlapping and intersecting unions&hellip; All will be aware of the \u2018Europe\u2019 that is a less than homogenous conglomerate of nation states, with an unwieldy Brussels bureaucracy at its centre. This European Union, which consists of 27 member states, is merely the most &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/12\/united-diagrams-of-europe-i-had-no-idea-that\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6525,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6523\/revisions\/6525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}