page_title: Symbols of the European Union
section_title: Europe Day
hierarchical_section_title: Symbols of the European Union / Europe Day
caption_attribution_description: English: Schuman Parade in Warsaw. Polski: Parada Schumana w Warszawie. Українська: Шуманський парад у Варшаві.
context_page_description: The European Union uses a number of symbols, including the European Flag, Anthem of Europe, Motto of the European Union and Europe Day.
  These symbols have no official status based in international treaty, but they are in de facto use by the EU institutions and are in widespread use as expressions of the political ideologies of Pan-Europeanism and European integration.
  Use of the European Flag in particular is widespread also among pro-EU factions outside of the European Union, especially in the "colour revolutions" of Eastern Europe.
context_section_description: "Europe Day" is an observance on 9 May, adopted along with flag, anthem and motto in the European Communities summit of 1985.
  It was chosen to commemorate the date of the 1950 Schuman Declaration, the proposal to pool the French and West German coal and steel industries.
  Observance of "Europe Day" by national and regional authorities of member states greatly increased following the establishment of the EU in 1993. Germany in particular has gone beyond celebrating just the day, since 1995 extending the observance to an entire "Europe Week" (Europawoche) centered on 9 May.
  Choice of the date of foundation of the European Coal and Steel Community rather than that of the EU itself established a narrative in which Schuman's speech, is presented as anticipating the "ever closer union" pursued in later decades as historical inevitability or "vocation" of the EU.
caption: The Schuman Parade  in Warsaw has been organised by the Schuman Foundation since 1999 (2008 photograph).
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