{"id":34,"date":"2006-05-20T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=34"},"modified":"2006-05-20T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-20T11:11:00","slug":"the-centre-of-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-centre-of-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"The centre of the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just reread an <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.co.uk\/group\/europa.union\/browse_frm\/thread\/bfe85f54edb2e0af\/ab32ecf23c33ab96?tvc=1&#038;q=centre+eu+strasbourg&#038;hl=en#ab32ecf23c33ab96\">old thread<\/a> in the <tt>europa.union<\/tt> newsgroup in which I calculated the population-weighted centre of the EU:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Area<\/th>\n<th>North<\/th>\n<th>East<\/th>\n<th>Closest city<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Original EEC (6 countries)<\/td>\n<td>47.77<\/td>\n<td>7.64<\/td>\n<td>Basle, Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>+3 (UK, Ireland, Denmark)<\/td>\n<td>48.91<\/td>\n<td>5.42<\/td>\n<td>Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>+1 (Greece)<\/td>\n<td>48.51<\/td>\n<td>6.04<\/td>\n<td>V\u00e9zelise, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>+2 (Spain and Portugal)<\/td>\n<td>47.37<\/td>\n<td>4.56<\/td>\n<td>Viteaux (west of Dijon), France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>+1\/2 (East Germany)<\/td>\n<td>47.60<\/td>\n<td>4.98<\/td>\n<td>a little north of Dijon, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>+3 (Austria, Finland, Sweden)<\/td>\n<td>48.06<\/td>\n<td>5.68<\/td>\n<td>Lamarche, Vosges, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>+10 (2004 enlargement)<\/td>\n<td>48.52<\/td>\n<td>7.94<\/td>\n<td>Strasbourg, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>+2 (Romania and Bulgaria)<\/td>\n<td>48.28<\/td>\n<td>9.02<\/td>\n<td>Ebingen, W\u00fcrttemberg, Germany<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>+1 (Turkey)<\/td>\n<td>47.21<\/td>\n<td>11.80<\/td>\n<td>a little east of Innsbruch, Austria<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Oh what fun we used to have in the <tt>europa.*<\/tt> hieararchy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just reread an old thread in the europa.union newsgroup in which I calculated the population-weighted centre of the EU: Area North East Closest city Original EEC (6 countries) 47.77 7.64 Basle, Switzerland +3 (UK, Ireland, Denmark) 48.91 5.42 Saint-Mihiel, Meuse, France +1 (Greece) 48.51 6.04 V\u00e9zelise, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France +2 (Spain and Portugal) 47.37 4.56 Viteaux (west of Dijon), France +1\/2 (East Germany) 47.60 4.98 a little north of Dijon, France +3 (Austria, Finland, Sweden) 48.06 5.68 Lamarche, Vosges, France +10 (2004 enlargement) 48.52 7.94 Strasbourg, France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,159,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-denmark","category-en","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}