OK my point of showing that was not to literally tie it to the biblical story but rather point out how similar they look.
Sporkeh, yes both are cylindrical. However notice that while the illustration of the tower of babel shows it as unfinished and the top of the EU building is designed in a way that looks similar to that of the unfinished tower in the illustration.
I am not trying to say this is a sign or an anything like that. Though I would not be surprised if the architect who designed this building did not take inspiration from this illustration. For no other reason then the fact that the idea behind the story of babel and the EU are similar. This idea being bringing many people together under one banner. I am also not saying the story is true, however it is a story that has been told and is relatively well known. One does not need to believe in God or the bible to have heard the story and even take ideas from it. But, I listened to a rabbi talk about it once. He described it as a symbolic story. To simplify it... the tower was to be built of brick. He went on to say that building something of brick rather than stone was the main point. He described individuals like stones, in that no two are the same. While bricks, bricks are all the same. The attempt was to make everyone the same. However we as humans are not all the same. Nor will be ever be. That is by design. Finally he referenced the part of the bible that states man was created in the image of God. He explained that by this it meant God is unique and we where created to be unique as well.
But this is not a religious discussion, I only brought up babel because of the parallels to the EU...
LordDz, considering there are so many who do not like it that seems to be unlikely. Also considering it has not really helped anything I do not see it as"working". Regardless of the existence of God, the EU and the idea behind it is a bad one. Making everyone the same is never good. It is impossible to make everyone happy and we all have so many different ideas. To try and put all those ideas together on a global scale would fail and is failing.
I obviously do not live in the EU, so I am speaking as an outsider. But I can see that even though my beliefs are not always in line with those on these forums when it comes to politics and religion I see eye to eye with many on this issue.