When Brexit is final, Gadheim's 89 inhabitants will find themselves at the geographic centre of the bloc. Photo: Daniel Roland/AFPA European Union flag snapping in the wind in the tiny German village of Gadheim is the only hint at why the world's media are beating a path to this out-of-the-way spot. "We thought it was an April Fool's joke at first," Goetz laughs, as he recounts the story around a table in the village hotel. "My husband has always said that we were the centre of the world," jokes Inge Diek, the village representative of the German Farmers' Association. Bittersweet feelingKessler may be amused to find the centre of the EU in her unremarkable field of rapeseed.

Source: The Local May 01, 2017 14:15 UTC