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Was EU flag's design inspired by the statue of Virgin Mary?
In this video it is claimed that the person who designed it was passing the statue of Virgin Mary with 12 stars and applied it to the design of the flag. How much of this claim is true?
Footnote: Wiki also mentions it:
In 1987, following the…
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Are these human rights in the UK derived from the ECHR?
In Patrick Stewart's sketch "What has the ECHR ever done for us?" concerning the Brexit, he plays the Prime Minister of the UK and asks (satirically):
[..] and what has the European Convention for Human Rights ever done for us in return?
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Did Jean-Claude Juncker claim that more than 80% of EU citizens want to abolish daylight saving time?
Background: After a recent public call to send in opinions on whether or not to keep the daylight saving time switch in the EU, it seems like a vast majority among the people who sent in their opinions is in favour of abolishing the time switch. In…
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Has the George Soros's Open Society Foundation been banned from Austria by Sebastian Kurz?
This October 2017 article from Extraordinary News, "Youngest World Leader Bans George Soros’s Foundations From Austria" makes the claim about the Chancellor-designate of Austria, Sebastian Kurz:
The world’s youngest leader, newly-elected Sebastian…
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Did 20 million people die because of Nationalism in Europe before the formation of the EU?
Former Belgian PM, Guy Verhofstadt says:
Reference
Did 20 million people die because of Nationalism in Europe before the formation of the EU?
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(To what extent) was the Lithuanian fence on the border with Russia (Kaliningrad) "funded by NATO" (or the EU)?
Wikipedia has claimed NATO funding for this fence for some years, e.g. today it says:
In early 2017, with increasing military activity and political tensions in the region, the Lithuanian government announced plans to reinforce the…
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