Re: EU and CoE emblems?

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 97 20:05:42 -0500
From: MINELRES moderator <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: EU and CoE emblems?

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Original sender: Ivan Kuhn <[email protected]>

Re: EU and CoE emblems?

On Wed, 18 Jun 1997 21:30:09 +0300 (EET DST) MINELRES moderator
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>Does somebody know 
>>what is the difference between the official emblems of the Council of 
>>Europe and the European Union? They both look very similar - 12 golden 
>>stars (sometimes on blue background).
>
>Well they are not only looking similar, they are the same.  Blue flag with 
>twelve gold (yellow) stars was originally adopted as a symbol of the
Council
> of Europe (I am not sure when exactly) and later (again I do not remember
>the date) it was accepted as a symbol of European Union.
>
>Moderator adds: Thank you, Ivan! Isn't this situation somewhat misleading?
>Or this is just to emphasize close links between the two bodies? 

Well, I think that the idea was to give some visible symbol to the
integration  of Europe. It would not look credible if each international
organisation which  has as its aim the integration of Europe would have its
own symbol.  How  you can speak about "united Europe" if you cannot unite in
such issue as 
the flag...  :-)

Ivan Kuhn
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