u are great david cerny! if u ever come in montenegro- budva, please, visit me!

your work is exactly real point of view of every normal and honest european citizen. 350.000 euro is- the price of the truth.
bravo! ;]

sandra dj.d., budva, montenegro

How good could a single piece by 27 artists be? The result would've been as boring as the Euro design. David Cerny has made real art. As the EU will try desperately to remove this sculpture, citizens should petition to keep it, even if this will as effective as voting 'no' to the constitution...

Steven Flostrand, Paris, France

Bravo and well played, Cerny! I would like to think whoever commissioned the piece was aware of Cerny’s reputation for “thumbing his nose at the establishment.” and actually got what they might have expected. Brilliant.

StHelena Steve, St Helena, USA

This man deserves full credit in what an artist should be; controversial, evoking questions. If the authorities complained about the source it means that they were not asking the right questions. The art-works of this man are very popular with tourists & Czechs. We people on the ground applaud him.

Alan Hannen-Lange, Exeter, England

Or better yet a huge JCB digger scooping up wads of €€€€ and stimultaneously threshing Irish works of art and literature while loads of homeless young families and sick people on hospital trolleys look on.

Africa, dublin, ireland

Ih Cerny was British he'd easily have won this year's Turner prize.

Stephen, St. Ives, e

@alfie, noakes

"...I'll eat my spray can"? Even eating spray cans won't get you anywhere near this Cerny guy ;)

Nikada Necete, Shvatiti, Slovene

Reading about all this I laughed so hard and long my whole face hurt. Bravo, Mr. Cerny !

Ondrej, Prague, Czech Republic

£350 000 to go around 27 artists for remuneration and materials... and then co-ordinated into a harmonius whole work of art. What did the EU think it was going to get for so little? It's surely work better left to a small team to get right than leave to an underfunded hoard of individuals.

Carol, Luxembourg,

Brilliant, brilliant! Art is still alive as the greatest outlet for political commentary. David Cerny at his best.

Megan, Hong Kong,

Brilliant!

Alexander, Ann Arbor, USA

A perfect and deserved prank. The art itself is endearingly daft, and Cerny has even faked or twisted the identities of his "collaborators". He deserves at least part of the money. Countries should consider the adoption of Cerny's icons as their official symbols (including the UK).

Lou, Dublin,

brillant! and the French piece so to the point with the closing down of the Gare St-Lazare yesterday!

Delia, Paris,Fr.,

... We always do all of the fun ... and now to see all of Europe ... :-))) post scriptum:sorry for bad english

Jakub, Prague, Czech republic

Lets face it. This guy was clever and seemed to want to get caught. How much of the rest of the great EU works are as honest?

perry jackson, st albans, UK

No one here seems to be able to read. The work was commissioned by the Czech government, not the EU. That the Czech government got swindled by one of its own citizens doesn't make the EU look bad, it makes the Czech government look even more incompetent than it has been accused of being.

Zdenek, Prague,

I love it! David Cerny is a genius.
It's funny and real, not just another bloody politically correct nonsense!!!

Daria, Prague, Czech Republic

Genius. That's all :)

Lucy, Reading,

Well done a genuinely interesting piece on art and well done David Cerny

James , Manchester, UK

Cheers to you Mr Cerny, your work of art made me laugh out loud,. provacative and cheeky, once again proving that the overpaid beaurocrats at the EU have no idea was going on on their doorstep let alone in the rest of the world.

Danny, Newport, U.K.

True brilliant genius! What a triumph to send up the dull humourless Eurocrats with such panache! The only shame is that it is at our expense, but then the whole Euro-project is a vast waste of our money.

Tom, London,

ooh aren't modern artists a witty subversive bunch, how clever, what genius. it makes me want to stand up and clap, it's so punk,... it's a swiz though isn't a common or garden swiz, £350,000 is a lot of dosh. if that's contemporary art at it's best i'll eat my spray can

Alfie, Noakes,

Brilliant!!! Especially the British representation

Max, Auckland,

This is a good example of art reflecting real life. In fact, each image is perfect for the next issue of European postage stamps. If the EU don't want it, perhaps we can persuade the Tate modern to display it.

Andy, Oxford, UK

Hilarious - it says a lot about the EU that they can spend £350,000 , then erect an offencive, EU mocking piece of art, and only 2 days before the unveiling realise that it may be a hoax.

Konstantinos Lykopoulos, London, UK

Well I believe the work should be considered more as a mirror of politician behaviors rather than countries, which is just funny. Like them he didn't do what he said he was doing. Great stuff.

lauren, london, uk

I'm amazed the EU noticed. Most of its 'grants' don't require any tangible output whatsoever. At least David Cerny has captured the essence of the EU, a bundle of nations united by their secret ridicule of one another.

Paul Freeman, London, England

if he pulled it off, then that is part of the art.

John, London,

This is work of a pure genius! David Cerny's hoax is contemporary art at it's best, ten times more subversive than any of Banksy's work.

Marko Kraljevic, Okolina Smedereva, Srbija