> “When I came to look closely at it,” he told me later, “the more it appeared to me that the European project was a deliberate attempt to reverse what happened

> “When I came to look closely at it,” he told me later, “the more it appeared to me that the European project was a deliberate attempt to reverse what happened at Babel. Curiously, the European Parliament building is based on Peter Bruegel's Tower of Babel [1]. [1] https://mattbell.org/why-is-the-strasbourg-parliament-based-on-tower-of-babel https://mattbell.org/why-is-the-strasbourg-parliament-based-...