#ecsc

from /r/vexillology Top comment: The ECSC (European Coal and Steel Community) is the predecessor of the European Union. The blue represents steel and the black represents coal. The six golden stars represent the six founding nations: Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and West Germany.

On 9 May 1950, against the backdrop of the Cold War, Robert Schuman issued a declaration which marked the beginning of the process of building the European Community. The aim the French Foreign Minister had set himself was to establish a new supranational organisation with a view to creating a common coal and steel market between France and Germany which was also open to other European countries. It would become the European Coal and Steel Community, or ECSC, and since 1985, Europe Day has been celebrated on 9 May every year.

I'm at a reggae concert and it actually isn't bad. Lol, actually they nailed it!

Many thanks to all of the people who have helped protect us My Father was only 15 when the VE day took place and so thankfully he never went to war, but had been born 5 years earlier things would have been very different.