The European Union flag should be put in every classroom

We can see from the figures on abstention that the turnout in the European elections is very low, which shows that the population of the European Union has little interest in it and feels little concerned by this organization of States. However, the European Union has an important role in the lives of individuals because a lot of decisions and laws are being made on a European scale, such as climate laws. In order to have more power over the decisions taken by the EU, which concern citizens in their everyday lives, they should therefore feel more concerned.

By introducing the obligatory presence of the European flag in school classes, it can develop a feeling of belonging to this political organization and therefore that it is more present in everyday life in people’s lives

Moreover, knowing that many symbols of the French Republic are present in schools, it is paradoxical that, as a French citizen but also a European one, the symbols of the EU are not present in schools.

This could deter the development of far-right nationalist ideologies at school. Indeed, the presence of the European flag thus develops the feeling of belonging to an organization characterized by its cultural, religious, economic, social, etc. diversity which opposes nationalism and xenophobia.

To require the presence of the European flag while this organization is currently in great dispute in France would simply deny the protests of a part of the population and establish the EU as legitimate when this is no longer the case.

In everyday life, the EU does not mean anything special. For example, we know that we live in France, we feel more or less French, but there is no European identity such as that of the French Republic. So it is why it wouldn’t make any sense to have a EU flag in each class.