Editing Symbols of Europe (section)

==Flag==
{{main|Flag of Europe}}
[[File:Flag of Europe.svg|thumb|right|Flag of Europe]]
A "Flag of Europe" was introduced by the [[Council of Europe]] in 1955, originally intended as a "symbol for the whole of Europe",<ref>[http://www.coe.int/en/web/about-us/the-european-flag The European flag], Council of Europe. Retrieved 27 October 2016.</ref> 
but due to its adoption by the [[European Economic Community]] (EEC) in 1985, and hence by the [[European Union]] (EU) as the successor organisation of the EEC, the flag is now strongly associated with the European Union so that it no longer serves the function of representing "Europe as a whole" at least since the early 2000s. 
The flag has notably been used by pro-EU protestors in the [[colour revolutions]] of the 2000s, e.g., in [[Belarus]] in 2004<ref>{{citation|last=Mite|title=Belarus: Scores Arrested, Opposition Leader Hospitalized After Minsk Protests|date=20 October 2004|publisher=rferl.org|url=http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2004/10/340afaf0-ebf7-4a03-8a25-ebda21070598.html|access-date=5 August 2007}})</ref> by the pro-EU faction in the [[Euromaidan]] riots in Ukraine in 2013, and by the [[List of campaign organisations supporting Remain in the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|pro-EU faction]] in the [[2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum|Brexit campaigns]] of 2016.

===Pan-European flags adopted before 1955===
{{Further|Flag of the European Coal and Steel Community|Flag of the Western European Union}}

[[File:Europa Congres Ridderzaal Den Haag. Overzicht, Bestanddeelnr 902-7379.jpg|thumb|[[Federalist flag]] displayed at the 1948 [[Congress of Europe]] in the [[Ridderzaal|Hall of Knights]] in [[The Hague]]]]
[[File:Western Union Standard.jpg|thumb|[[Flag of the Western Union|Western Union Standard]] displayed in 1949]]

Prior to development of political institutions, flags representing Europe were limited to unification movements. The most popular were the [[European Movement]]'s [[Federalist flag|large green 'E' on a white background]], and the "Pan European flag"  of the [[Paneuropean Union]] (1922).<ref name="ENA page">{{Citation|title=The European flag: questions and answers |editor=CVCE |url=http://www.cvce.eu/education/unit-content/-/unit/eeacde09-add1-4ba1-ba5b-dcd2597a81d0/2b4e569f-9aa3-48dd-b877-13d0d5f1d177/Resources#39d51e24-2e68-4497-b81e-7a08e09ee0d7_en&overlay |access-date=25 June 2014}}</ref>

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Former Flag of the International Paneuropean Union.svg|The original flag of the [[Paneuropean Union]] (1922)
File:Old flag of the European Movement.svg|The original [[Federalist flag]] of the [[European Movement]] 
File:Flag of the Western Union.svg| [[Flag of the Western Union]] (1949–1954)
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