Federalist Flag - A New Design

A New Design

In the years following the Financial Crisis 2007-08, economic and political changes within the EU and Eurozone have caused a rise in euroscepticsm and other anti-EU feeling. This has been seen most visibly in Northern Europe, especially in the traditionally isolationist lobby in the United Kingdom, and also in countries which have required fiscal bail-outs from Brussels. The antipathy towards the European project has inevitably created interest in the opposite view, and led to a small but not insignificant increase in federalist sentiment. Resultantly, several groups of these new federalists have seen the need for a variant on the traditional Green E flag design from the 20th century, firstly because the original is unlikely to be adopted on the creation of a European Federation or Confederacy, and secondly because the blue and gold of the flag of the European Union is heavily connected to the status quo and is rapidly losing credibility in eurosceptic areas. Several new green and white designs have been created and distributed, but none has, as of writing, been broadly adopted.