EU Military flags

Insignia of the European Military Staff

The flow of migrants across the Mediterranean to Europe from North African and Middle Eastern countries, particularly Libya. and the contempt for Human life shown by the people traffickers has caused the European Union to take action. An EU naval task force has recently been agreed to combat the traffickers. European warships including British vessels are already in the Med to assist in the humanitarian effort.
While the European Union's primary function is not as a military alliance, it has a common Security and Defence Policy which maintains a raid reaction force called European Union Force (EUFOR), which has been deployed in various countries in and outside of Europe. This has led to some interesting heraldic insignia of the various military alliances and operations within the Union, see here. 
Unlike dedicated military alliances like NATO, the European Union does not have dedicated flags for military use so here are my proposals,

Naval Task Force

While some Fisheries protection vessels to fly a common pennant and ships that are part of a European group (for example the anti-piracy group protecting ships traveling between Europe (via the Suez Canal) and Africa and Asia)  to fly an EU flag alongside their national ensign, there is no dedicated pennant, or command flags like in NATO. So here is the EU naval pennant, for use of ships on EU taskings:

Its a simple system of shapes a ship in command of a squadron would use a swallow tailed variant of the flag:

The actual EU flag being reserved for the flagship. 

Land Forces

Land forces generally do not use rank flags the way ships do anymore but here is a similar system:

A swallow tailed flag for the commander in chief

If it is a big force with more than one Division, the blue and yellow variants for Division commanders:

The number or letter of the division could be placed in the centre of the stars.

A Brigade Commander could use a triangular variant, again an insignia could be placed in the centre:

As for Arm patches a simple circle of stars with the nations initials, as used on EU number plates ie D for Germany, NL for Neatherlands, E for Spain, F for France etc. In this case UK for British troops:

However as most armies tend to wear flag patches, it renders the need for the patch to identify nationality as pointless, so a standardised European patch might be better:

This intern got me thinking:

Air Forces

What about aircraft roundels, the flags of the sky. I do think it is important to keep the national roundel, but the aircraft could easily be marked as part of a European force by surrounding this with the EU stars for example German and French roundels for EU missions:

German roundel 

French roundel

This was just a quick post but let me know what you think?

European Parliament Coat of Arms.

After watching the daily Politics Program on the BCC on which they done a section on EU politics, I thought that the European Parliament apart from the EU flag has no official badge or coat of arms or any other emblem. I find this surprising giving the size and influence of the European Union. So I had a go today at designing my own.
Wanting to use something more original than a shield with an EU flag, I thought about making one which incorporates the arms of all the member states. Yes All 27 of them! This was no easy task, not just because of the huge scale, but it is was made more difficult by the fact that some of these nations don't even have a coat of arms! Although most do have some form of heraldic badge that I was able to use. Anyway here is the result:

the crest features a mural cornet or crown as is normal when representing a community or settlement. It has a globe and a dove representing peace.
I would like to use animals for the supporters but as one animal would mean more to one country than another (eg a lion would represent Britain, and eagle Germany etc) I decided to keep it neutral. The supporters are in the form of  two EU flags and a laurel wreath, with the Nobel Peace Prize (which was of course awarded to the European Union). The peace symbolism reflecting the fact that the EU was originally founded after WW2 with the aim of preventing another European conflict that could effect the world.
The motto is Latin and translates as "Unity through Diversity."
For those of you that are interested in the arms on the shield, they are from the top and moving left to right:
Slovenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Austria, The Czech Republic, Germany, The Netherlands, Estonia, Greece, Spain, The United Kingdom, Croatia, Finland, France, Hungary, Malta, Romania, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Ireland, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Slovakia and Cyprus. 
As interesting as this is, I think you will agree there is far too much going on. So as much I hate to say it after making all that, I think the best way is to put an EU flag on a shield, but still adding a crest and supporters:

Apart from the shield most of the stuff has stayed the same except the supporters. As the flag is now on the shield I think you will agree, that there is no need for flag supporters, so I replaced them with symbols of Liberty and Justice, which was inspired by the New York coat of arms. Although as the Liberty figure has connections with the French Revolution I am not sure it is completely neutral. 

Your Comments are welcome. 

EU Nobel Peace Prize flag

After the news the the European Union was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. I thought about incorporating it into the flag. After all Malta did it with the George Cross.

After a quick internet search I found this flag: 

Clearly this is not an actual flag but I think it brings some important things to light, Firstly the medal is very complicated and detailed. A simpler version is needed. Secondly it looks awful in the centre of the stars.

Firstly I thought of putting the medal in the canton but I don't like it.

Then I thought of an ensign type flag with the medal in the fly and EU flag in the canton.

This works ok as a flag but not too sure about it as the EU flag? I also thought of a white version for peace

Perhaps this could be used for EU Pace programs but I don't think it works for the EU as a whole. The next design I think work ok. I simply moved the stars away from the centre, towards the hoist. Then put the medal in the bottom fly. 

 

I also made a white flag:

Your thoughts and comments are welcome