Proposals for an European flag (original) (raw)

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European Union

Central European Union (1920)

Image located by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 November 2022

Apparently someone saw this as a way to save Austria. But the specific way is quite extraordinary. Apart from the suggested two-sided flag [top is obverse, bottom is reverse], he also suggests 24 canton flags, of which 4 are depicted. I have yet to determine the system in them, that would tell the other 20.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 November 2022

Presentation of the proposals

The colour plate Un drapeau pour l'Europe (A flag for Europe) was published by P.M.G. Lévy and P. Martin in Saisons d'Alsace, 1950, No.3.
The plate shows the flags of two private European movements that existed in 1950, the European Movement and the Paneuropa Union, and another 12 proposals of Europen Union flag. No detail is given either on the origin or meaning of the proposals.
[Carole Lager. Le drapeau européen, histoire et symbolisme (The European flag, history and symbolism) [lag99].In Fahnen, Flags, Drapeaux (Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Vexillology, Zurich, 23-27 August 1993[icv93])]

Ivan Sache, 6 January 2000

Proposals

Proposal #1 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #1 is a plain green flag.

Proposal #2 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #2 is horizontally divided blue-green-yellow-black with a triangle horizontally divided into two equal white-red parts, placed along the hoist.

Proposal #3 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #3 is a blue flag charged in the center with a white triangle bordered in black and white.

Proposal #4 - Image by António Martins, 21 July 2017

Proposal #4 is quartered red-blue-green-yellow by a thick white cross.

Proposal #5 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #5 is horizontally divided blue-white, 13 stripes, with a red, square canton (height, seven stripes) charged with three columns of five white stars each.

Proposal #6 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #6 is a white flag charged with a green letter "E" in the cebter.

Proposal #7 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #7 is horizontally divided blue-white-red with "EUROPE" written in black thick letters in the white stripe.

Proposal #8 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #8 is a blue flag charged with a white diamond and crossed by a white (through the blue field) and red (through the diamond) stripe rynning from the flag' upper left to lower right corner.

Proposal #9 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #9 is white with a red cross bordered in yellow; a red square bordered in yellow is placed in the center of the cross and charged with a white shield and a red bend. The shield shows the historical coat of arms of Strasbourg.

Proposal #10 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #10 is blue with a thin white cross and a green triangle bordered in black placed in the middle of the cross. THe fly is indented so tthat the flag is shaped like letter "E".

Proposal #11 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #11 is quartered per saltire white-red-white-blue with two smaller green triangles placed inside the white triangles and the white letters E and U placed in the red and blue triangle, respectively.

Proposal #12 - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005

Proposal #12 is quartered per saltire white-red-white-blue with a green star placed in each white triangle. The star placed in the left triangle is tilted to the upper left corner whereas the other star points upwards.

Ivan Sache, 15 April 2005