‘Nice 2000’. On 7 December 2000, as European leaders meet for the Nice European Council, which should see them decide on a number of changes to the Community legal and institutional system, German cartoonist Horst Haitzinger harshly criticises the attitude of French President Chirac and German Chancellor Schröder, who seem to want to share out the European Union between themselves. Haitzinger bases his cartoon on a drawing by the famous British cartoonist James Gillray (1757–1815), who was well known for his satirical drawings on political and social issues. In his 1805 cartoon ‘The Plumb-pudding in danger: — or — State Epicures taking un Petit Souper’, British Prime Minister William Pitt, wearing a uniform and military headgear, is sat at a table with his French adversary Napoleon. The two figures are sharing out a huge plum pudding depicted as a world map. As in Gillray’s drawing, Haitzinger shows the French President and the German Chancellor in uniform, cheerfully sharing out the EU’s future.