This map of the EU inside my old school folder

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  1. “A day will come when we will see these two huge groups, the United States of America and the United States of Europe, facing each other, shaking hands over the walls, exchanging their products, their trade, their industry. ” (Victor Hugo, Congress Of Peace 1849)

  2. I start to think that the editor got bored when they got to the green countries.

    Either that or this is a parallel universe.

  3. I want to know how they managed to misplace the Greenland Sea across the Atlantic? I can get not knowing or even mentioning the Norwegian Sea, but wtf?

  4. Wait, it’s a map from between 2001 to 2004 obviously. What are Serbia and Montenegro doing separated there?

    Also, poor Belarus, it’s there but not named.

  5. Once (circa 2002) I forgot my atlas in school for the geography exam. I was lent one from the school library, it still had the USSR in it. Still passed though.

  6. The small text in the top right says:
    “A day will comme where we will see those two huge groups, the United States of America and the United States of Europe, placed one facing the other, holding hands above the walls, exchanging products, businesses, industries.”
    This was apparently a coat by Victor Hugo, a great french writer, dramatist novelist and poet that was part of the Academie Française and the National Assembly.

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