Both the E.U. and U.S. have
their respective flag days during the month of June—on the 29th and
14th, respectively. This isn’t the only thing that the flags have in
common, and what sets both off from the flags of the states. I contend that these
similarities and difference regarding political symbols can function as markers
for what both unions are as complex polities of polities even as ideologies seek
to obfuscate and dissimilate, even dismissing or ignoring the history of both
unions. In other words, flags don’t lie; people do.
The full essay is at "E.U. Flag Day."
