Barcode flag

Flag barcode, EU Barcode
Use	Proposed
Proportion	1:2
Design	A flag which displays the colors on the national flags of the European Union member countries as a series of vertical stripes
Designed by	Rem Koolhaas

The Barcode flag (also EU Barcode) was designed in 2002 and updated in 2006 by Dutch architect Remment Koolhaas as a proposal for the flag of the European Union.^[1][2] It was never adopted by the EU, but became well known later on after having been featured in multiple newspapers.^[3]

In 2005, it became a symbol of the Austrian presidency of the Council of the European Union.^[4]

It was criticized^{[by whom?]} for its jarring appearance and resemblance to a barcode^[5] (which lent the design its colloquial name), as well as for its intentional portrayal of the EU as nothing more than a sum of its member states.^[6]

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