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There’s been reports for this link to be an ad… we’re allowing it nonetheless because the discussion is very rich (I, personally agree with many of the criticism that were done: products may not be socially or environmentally friendly, or even it may be better to support an European artist). The EU parliament is more like a tool, and sometimes it does work well. Oftentimes it just makes decisions that are not aligned with our values as a community. Nonetheless, the EU flag is nowadays an important symbol that’s being undermined by bigots and propaganda. That’s why I’ve been ignoring the reports of this as an ad. I believe the underlying message to be more important. And, as I said, the discussion here has brought very good points that I wouldn’t have thought so just by myself.
Best regards, anzo.
Buy merch from your favourite artists/bands instead and be vocal about taxing the rich. Also stop using Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, et cetera. The EU Parliament has plenty of money, many artists do not, yet the latter have way more reach than wearing an EU t-shirt, and plenty of artists are vehemently against our whole corrupt system. E.g., Massive Attack, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, et cetera.
its a private owned company (from Germany), Just getting this out to avoid confusion with any official shop/resource.
nevertheless, great thought! possibly makes for a great Gift for Christmas top 😁
Pretty sure they’re “official”, as in a private company but directly contracted by and affiliated with the European parliament. Their physical location is even inside the parliament’s visitor centre.
“Make Europe Great Again” vibes
Were people in Europe wearing shirts with American flags before?
I wouldn’t think so.
I have one, with a small flag. If it’s in the stores, you buy it without much thinking. People in my area also wear Canadian flags, Scottish flags or the Union Jack on their clothes. For example. They’re just quite recognizable. Simulacra in the Baudrillard sense, even.
There are also a lot of shirts being sold here in Europe that have names of states or cities printed on them (such as California, Los Angeles, New York, etc).
I never owned any with any flag
I feel like we shouldn’t copy the American flag waving and blind patriotism. I believe we’re much better off with a Federation of EU States than without it, and I see Schengen as a huge accomplishment, but the EU as an institution has many problems we shouldn’t be blind to.
It’s about time to ditch American garish flag shagging and wear clothes that exemplify you for you, not overt nationalism.
(is nationalism the right word for an extranational institution? whatever)
F*ck flags
Ew, I don’t wanna see what.
Show your support for European values by buying clothes made outside of Europe under horrible environmental and human conditions! (That’s my assumption since there is no info on the website)
Not a fan of the hashtag because of how Trump it sounds, but I might order like 10 pairs of socks because why not.
Yeah no thx nationalism will definitely defeat the threat of nationalism.
Probably this is just marketing by the people selling those shirts but ehhh
Europe isn’t a nation, it’s a group of nations and there is a big reason to support it now
Yeah agree and America isn’t a state it’s a group of states and we need to make both the united states and the group of nations great again
The EU federalists would really like to make it one though.
Not sure why they think that, considering every single attempt in history to centralise political power in Europe has failed.
Decentralisation of power and denationalisation seems a better way forward
No thank you.
hoodie for 70€
damn they sure learned capitalism from the US…
I won’t wear the flag of an imperialist, capitalist entity. Good try MEGA
