A social media post by Antonio Tajani, Italy’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister, has sparked debate around the origins and symbolism of the European flag. Writing on X to mark 40 years since ...

To be a European is to have learned from history that what starts off as patriotic fervour can, under the wrong kind of pressure, curdle into something far uglier. Most Europeans thus treat the flags ...

As the European Union faces increasing scrutiny from the Trump administration, Isabel Schnabel, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, shared an image of the European Union flag ...