A Conversation for The European Union

Stars

Post 1

jdc

This is pure pedantry, but the number of stars never had anything to do with the number of members at all.

The flag was taken from that of the Council of Europe, and the 12ness of it is just because it's a nice symbolic number, and fits well in a circle.

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