Judging from the controversy this sculpture has suffered, not too well.
- France is draped in a “GRÈVE!” (“STRIKE!”) banner[8]
- Germany is a series of interlocking autobahns, described as “somewhat resembling a swastika“,[8][14][15] though that is not universally accepted.[16] Cars move along the roads.
- The United Kingdom, known for its Euroscepticism and relative isolation from the Continent, is “included” as missing piece (an empty space) at the top-left of the work[8]
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- Austria, a known opponent of atomic energy, is a green field dominated by nuclear power plant cooling towers;[7] vapour comes out of them at intervals
- Belgium is presented as a half-full box of half-eaten Praline chocolates
- Bulgaria is depicted by a series of connected “Turkish” squat toilets;[8] neon-like lights connect and illuminate them (later hidden with fabric)[9]
- Cyprus is jigsawed (cut) in half
- The Czech Republic‘s own piece is an LED display, which flashes controversial quotations by Czech President Václav Klaus
- Denmark is built of Lego bricks, and some claim to see in the depiction a face reminiscent of the cartoon controversy,[10] though any resemblance has been denied by the artist[11]
- Estonia is presented with a hammer and sickle-styled power tools, the country has considered a ban on Communist symbols[12]
- Finland is depicted as a wooden floor and a male with a rifle lying down, imagining an elephant and a hippo.[13]
- France is draped in a “GRÈVE!” (“STRIKE!”) banner[8]
- Germany is a series of interlocking autobahns, described as “somewhat resembling a swastika“,[8][14][15] though that is not universally accepted.[16] Cars move along the roads.
- Greece is depicted as a forest that is entirely burned, possibly representing the 2007 Greek forest fires and the 2008 civil unrest in Greece.[17]
- Hungary features an Atomium made of its common agricultural products melons and Hungarian sausages, based on a floor of peppers
- Ireland is depicted as a brown bog with bagpipes protruding from Northern Ireland; the bagpipes play music every five minutes[citation needed]
- Italy is depicted as a football pitch[8] with several players who appear to be masturbating[15] with the footballs they each hold.
- Latvia is shown as covered with mountains, in contrast to its actual flat landscape
- Lithuania a series of dressed Manneken Pis-style figures urinating on its eastern neighbours; the streams of urine are presented by a yellow lighting glass fibers
- Luxembourg is displayed as a gold nugget with “For Sale” tag[8]
- Malta is a tiny island with its prehistoric dwarf elephant as its only decoration; there’s a magnifying glass in front of the elephant
- The Netherlands has disappeared under the sea with only several minarets still visible;[8] the piece is supposed to emit the singing of muezzins
- Poland has a piece with priests erecting the rainbow flag of the Gay rights movement, in the style of the U.S. Marines raising the Stars and Stripes at Iwo Jima.[18]
- Portugal is shown as a wooden cutting board with three pieces of meat in the shape of its former colonies of Brazil, Angola, and Mozambique
- Romania is a Dracula-style theme park,[8] which is set up to blink and emit ghostly sounds at intervals.
- Slovakia is depicted as a Hungarian sausage (or a human body tightened by Hungarian tricolour)
- Slovenia is shown as a rock engraved with the words first tourists came here 1213
- Spain is covered entirely in concrete,[19] with a concrete mixer situated in the northeast
- Sweden does not have an outline, but is represented as a large Ikea-style self-assembly furniture box, containing Gripen fighter planes[20] (as supplied to the Czech Air Force)
- The United Kingdom, known for its Euroscepticism and relative isolation from the Continent, is “included” as missing piece (an empty space) at the top-left of the work[8]