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From 1985/ The European flag celebrates 40 years as a symbol of the EU

2025-06-29 21:10:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

From 1985/ The European flag celebrates 40 years as a symbol of the EU

Originally adopted by the Council of Europe thirty years ago, the twelve gold stars on a blue background became the 'logo' for the EU in 1985.

The twelve gold stars, clearly and in contrast to some national flags, do not represent member states or entities, but "the ideals of unity, solidarity and harmony among the peoples of Europe", as the European Commission website puts it.

In 1983, towards the end of its first legislature as a directly elected legislative body, the European Parliament decided to adopt it as the symbol of what we now know as the EU, but back then it was still known as the European Communities.

Two years later, the European Council, representatives of the ten member states at that time, approved the decision and by 1986, after Portugal and Spain had just joined, the flag, officially called only the "logo", to avoid too strong connotations of nationality, was widely used by the Communities and member states in official buildings, etc.

Design ideas for a flag for a united Europe had been floated since before World War II, and of course even more so after. They ranged from a green cross on a white background and vice versa, to a white triangle on a variety of backgrounds, and even a combination of all the colors of all the European flags in five fields, arrived at through careful statistical analysis by a Strasbourg citizen.

None of them were adopted, but it was in Strasbourg in 1953 that the now-famous flag was first proposed by members of the Council of Europe. The institution as a whole adopted it in December 1955. /CNA





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