The European Union bar code……..

[updated:LAST EDITED ON 08-05-02 AT 06:32 PM (GMT)]The picture below is not of a bar code,oh no this is the new European Union flag!!Hahaha.
From the BBC:
The rather sombre European Union flag could do with changing, suggests a top designer whose radical new version takes colours from the banners of all the member states. If it’s run up the flagpole, will anyone salute it?
If the European Union accepts as many as 10 new countries to the already 15-strong club, it is feared the enlarged organisation’s flag may look a bit out of date.The current version dating from 1986 boasts 12 stars – 12 being chosen as a pleasingly “perfect” symmetrical arrangement, rather than to represent member nations.
Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas thinks that this perfection can be improved upon – his new flag uses 45 vertical stripes, taking colours from every existing member’s national flag.
The logo – designed in response to a request by European Commission president Romano Prodi to find ways of rebranding the EU – represents Europe’s “diversity and unity”, according to Mr Koolhaas.
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LOL!Is this some kind of joke,its sooo ugly.In my opinion a flag should be easily recognisable and reproducible by patriots and children alike (unlike this one). The proposed bar code style, whilst recognisable, is very hard on the eyes and very hard on artists. Something more along the lines of the Olympic flag might be better!
Your opinions?
(Old flag left-proposed new flag right)

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