[HN Gopher] Why there are 12 stars on the EU flag although it wa...
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Why there are 12 stars on the EU flag although it was never 12
countries
Author : ubac
Score : 23 points
Date : 2020-05-01 21:15 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| amelius wrote:
| https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/07/banksy-...
| ars wrote:
| If you follow his chain all the way to end it's supposedly
| because there are 12 months in a year.
| mattmaroon wrote:
| Optimism!
| mytailorisrich wrote:
| It's not true that it was never 12 countries.
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| On the contrary, while the flag existed before, it really became
| the EC flag in 1986 when the number of member countries was...
| 12.
| gok wrote:
| It was adopted by the EEC in 1985 when there were 10 members.
| [deleted]
| Thaxll wrote:
| https://europa.eu/european-union/about-eu/symbols/flag_en
| guessmyname wrote:
| The WikiPedia page [1] has much more information and probably a
| better answer.
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| Also a timeline with different flags through out the years [2].
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| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Europe
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| [1]
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Europe#Timeline_of_Fla...
| colechristensen wrote:
| The reason is, apparently, nothing. There are some weird
| conspiracies that people take too far about this and that but
| nobody ever declared any reason for 12. It's like reading a high
| school literature interpretation of Moby Dick out there.
| redis_mlc wrote:
| It should be one star for Germany, and 11 little euro signs for
| the remaining welfare queens.
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