The EUR-pallet is a flat wooden pallet from the exchange system of the Europool. This means that its materials and formats are defined, normed, standardised, and subject to European guidelines. In the factual sense, the palettes serve as means of transport for the exchange of goods. Seen from a metaphoric and artistic perspective, they “deliver” questions: What does the United States of Europe consider itself to be? What is its relationship to other states, how does it deal with norms and individuality, and how does it organise the multicultural interplay of diverse societies? Forty-seven cards with images of forty-seven various EUR-pallets representing the forty-seven member states were put together to create a house of cards – or three forms – that appears to be both concrete and independent, as well as sculpturally abstract and enigmatic. In various positions and only illuminated by a single source of light, they cast shadows whose shapes have the appearance of architectonic building forms. Depending on whether and how the light penetrates or flows past the “pallet walls”, they appear like buildings and – in this, as well as the socio-political sense – block-like, dark, closed and rejecting, or light, open and welcoming. The concept to the EUR-palette can also be associated with the palette of a painter who places his many colours on it in order to mix them to create the individual colouration for his art