We are nothing but barcodes.

international | eu | news report Monday December 26, 2005 13:48 by iosaf

In a few days mostly un-noticed by most, EU presidential power will go from the UK to another member of the 25 states, the lucky recipient is Austria.

Austria has quite a history, it used have an empire. & in the last years almost all of its ex-posessions have joined the Europe of 25.

It is also a neutral state, its neutrality being a condition of its post war occupation and partition when rather than being held responsible for WW2 it was declared the first victim of Nazism. Despite the fact that Hitler was an austrian and the majority of Concentration camp directors were austrian too.

west & left (ireland, portugal, spain) to east & right (estonia, latvia, cyprus) the Barcode of the EU.

Austria has chosen as its "logo" of the EU a design by Dutch designer Rem Koolhaas. "He and his think-tank OMA originally came up with the idea of reassembling the colours of the EU countries’ flags in a “bar code” during a brainstorming session in 2001".

This will now be the logo for europe.

They believe this represents the "colourful diversity" of Europe's 25 states arranged from left (west Ireland, Portugal, Spain...) to east (lativia, estonia,lithuania and finally cyprus).

I think its just a bar code
I have always felt most people don't like barcodes.

is this the Austrian legacy of the barcode? "one for every european"?