Here’s an overview of the proposed “two-speed Europe” plan and the emerging E6 group, based on Reuters and related reporting.

What is the “Two-Speed Europe” Proposal?

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Map crated by geodatarankingsThe map above supposedly shows what time Europeans wake up each morning.

I have 3 young kids so can only dream of sleeping in to 7:33am.

With a little digging I found that the times come 2015 study on 941,300 male and female Sleep Cycle app users.

Among other things it found that:

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Map created by Ligue MapsThe map above shows how many letters each country (or really each language) has in it’s alphabet.

In any case here’s a ranking of countries by the number letters in their alphabet from lowest to highest:

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Map credit Dalmatian Mapper

The map above shows how much of each European country is actually located in Europe.

For example Denmark is just 2% because of the size of Greenland. Similarly only 23% of Russia’s land is in Europe, despite the vast majority of each country’s population actually living in Europe.

Here is the ranked list from low to high:

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Map created by Europe MagazineThe map above shows support for a unified European army by European country. From the map’s Instagram post:

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The map above shows Ultra-processed food as a percentage of household purchases, from the journal Public Health Nutrition as reported in the Guardian in 2018..

Here are the full rankings:

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Map created by ceskemapyThe map above shows the CzechPOINT locations per European country.

And, It should be noted that a CzechPOINT and checkpoint are two different things.

So what is CzechPOINT?

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Map created by amazing__maps, visit his store here.The map above shows which part of each European country is the richest.

Here they are grouped together, with an explainer where not obvious (hint it’s almost always where the capital is located).

I love the attempt at this and after looking into, it’s actually quite difficult.

That said, I’ve also put countries in bold where I dispute the claim:

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Credit: nazar.dataThe map above supposedly shows the second most commonly spoken language in each European country, and comes from this article from MSN, which in turn lists the source as “Information from national censuses and surveys.”

However, I think the data for some countries is rather suspect.

There is no way that 49% of people in France speak Arabic, or that 23% of people in the UK speak French (at least beyond ordering a pain au chocolat).

Similarly for Ireland, far more people know how to speak a few words in Irish than they do French. And if we’re going by native speakers then Polish has far more speakers than French.

That said many other countries do seem right.

Anyway here’s the data as reported:

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The map above shows which European countries end in Land in German.

They are:
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