Britain has been ordered by the European Union to fly the blue and yellow EU flag all of this week in celebration of the EU’s “Europe Day” on Monday.

All government bodies that administer any EU funds are required to hoist the alien flag from May 9 on pain of severe fines should they refuse.

The EU has also sent British schools propaganda material on how to celebrate Europe Day, with recommendations such as the holding of special EU-themed assemblies, accepting only euro notes in the tuckshop (cafeteria), singing other EU countries’ national anthems and writing short stories praising Europe.

Europe Day was created by decree in 1985 to establish an annual celebration of EU “achievements,” including, for instance, that it—rather than nato and the United States—has kept the peace in Europe since World War ii. It officially marks the anniversary of French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman’s call in 1950 for a coal and steel community, the forerunner of the EU.

The British coalition government is divided on the issue. While Conservatives, including the prime minister at 10 Downing Street and the Foreign Office, will refuse to fly the EU 12-star flag, their Liberal Democrat partners and the Department for Business, headed by Vince Cable, will obediently do so. British embassies and other overseas diplomatic missions have been allowed to make their own decisions over whether or not to fly it.

Last year, Britain was fined more than £150 million for failing to display the EU flag on a string of “Regional Development” projects part-funded by the EU. This January, Britain’s National Audit Office revealed that the nation had been hit with £1 billion in penalties for failing to meet onerous EU agricultural regulations.

Of course, penal impositions of flags is not new to European countries. One of the first acts of the Nazi government when it occupied a country, such as France, Belgium, Holland, Poland and so on, was to force the display of the red and black swastika flag on all public buildings, including schools and railway stations, and all major bridges. Failure to do so resulted in heavy fines, imprisonment or, if considered willful, death.
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