In the split border town of Baarle-Nassau (which is Dutch) and Baarle-Hertog (a Belgian enclave surrounded by the Netherlands), Dutch voters head to the polls for the EU election, while their Belgian neighbours have to wait three days for their turn to cast their vote. If ever a place encapsulated the glorious complexity and sometimes paradoxical nature of the European Union, it would be Baarle, just on the Dutch side of the Netherlands-Belgium border. The international border runs through the town, marked by a series of white crosses in the pavement that sometimes even bisects buildings -- including the town hall. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES