Flag of Europe

Name	European flag, Flag of Europe, Flag of the Council of Europe, Flag of the European Union
Use	Council flag representing the 47 member states of the Council of Europe, union flag representing the 28 member states of the EU
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	8 December 1955 (CoE); 29 June 1985 (EEC)
Design	A circle of twelve five-pointed yellow stars on a blue field.
Designed by	Arsène Heitz, Paul M. G. Lévy

The Flag of Europe or European Flag,^[a] is an official symbol adopted by two separate organisations, the Council of Europe (CoE) as a symbol for the whole of Europe,^[2] and the European Union (EU). Its made up of a circle of twelve five-pointed yellow stars on a blue (azure) field.

The design was created in 1955, and officially adopted later that year by the Council of Europe as a symbol for the whole of Europe.^[3]

Flag Of Europe Media

Arms of monk and priest Prosper Guéranger (1805–1875)
EUFlagspecification
The flag of Europe flown alongside the Flag of France on Villa Schutzenberger, seat of the European Audiovisual Observatory, an institution within the Council of Europe (2011 photograph)
Obverse and reverse of the European flag proposed in an anonymous pan-European brochure from 1920.
Flag proposed in a sketch for the United States of Europe
Flag proposed by Camille Manné the 23rd of August, 1949. (Vectorized)
The original flag of the International Paneuropean Union
Martin-Levy Flag Proposal (15 July 1951)
Flag proposed by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi the 15th of July, 1951.
Flag proposed by the Prince of Schwarzenberg the 15th of July, 1951.

Notes

↑ Alternatively, it is sometimes called the Flag of the European Union when representing the EU. The name "flag of the European Union" is used in e.g. the Italian law no. 22 of 5 February 1998 (bandiera dell'Unione europea), and by the Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l'Europe (Le drapeau de l'Union européenne, 2016).

References

↑ Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (8 December 1955), Resolution (55) 32 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, CVCE, retrieved 25 June 2014
↑ "The European flag".
↑ The European flag, Council of Europe. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

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[2] Alternatively, it is sometimes called the Flag of the European Union when representing the EU. The name "flag of the European Union" is used in e.g. the Italian law no. 22 of 5 February 1998 (bandiera dell'Unione europea), and by the Centre virtuel de la connaissance sur l'Europe (Le drapeau de l'Union européenne, 2016).

[1] Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (8 December 1955), Resolution (55) 32 of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, CVCE, retrieved 25 June 2014

[3] "The European flag".

[4] The European flag, Council of Europe. Retrieved 27 October 2016.

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