Subject: Re: What is Cölbe?<br/>
Date: Mar 01, 2003 @ 23:54<br/>
Author: Francisco &lt;xuax@netvisao.pt&gt; (&quot;Francisco &lt;xuax@...&gt;&quot; &lt;xuax@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1510703596">&quot;Karolis B. &lt;kbajoraz@y...&gt;&quot; &lt;kbajoraz@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; But the Union is getting so ridiculously big. <br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Why &quot;ridiculously&quot;? Shouldn&#39;t get bigger?<br/>
<br/>
What is ridiculous is the fight to be granted the title of Centre of <br/>
Europe, or something like that. I guess there&#39;s no doubt the <br/>
geographical centre is in Lithuania.<br/>
<br/>
The geographical centre of the European Union depends on the members <br/>
at a given moment, and it&#39;s not difficult to calculate. What&#39;s the <br/>
problem?<br/>
<br/>
The center of power - what really matters in this world - is not so <br/>
easily find, but in the European Union it is shifting among the <br/>
centers of Paris, Berlin and Brussels. Sometimes is also pulled by <br/>
London, when the UK is not too much shifted towards the USA :-)<br/>
<br/>
Francisco,<br/>
from eccentric Portugal<br/>
(to be off-centered, or eccentric, has also some advantages; you <br/>
have a different view of the center)</div>