Goodbye stars, hello stripes: The new symbol of the EU .

Goodbye stars, hello stripes: The new symbol of the EU. Paul Waugh and Robert Booth at The Independent –

Goodbye stars, hello stripes: The new symbol of the EU –

The European Union gets a barcode for a flag. Bizarre. [samizdata {lew}] [End the War on Freedom]

It’s not clear from the article if this new flag will really be adopted or not, but it certainly does look like a barcode. That’s actually quite appropriate, though–it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the EU was requiring people to have barcode tattoos in the near future.