what does the letters eu stand for?
European Union
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 The European Commission also specified a euro logo with exact proportions and foreground and background colour tones . While the Commission intended the logo to be a prescribed glyph shape , font designers made it clear that they intended to design their own variants instead . Typewriters lacking the euro sign can create it by typing a capital ' C ' , backspacing and overstriking it with the equal ( ' = ' ) sign . Placement of the currency sign relative to the numeric amount varies from nation to nation , but for texts in English the symbol ( or the ISO @-@ standard " EUR " ) should precede the amount . 

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 The flag is not mentioned in the EU 's treaties , its incorporation being dropped along with the European Constitution , but it is formally adopted in law . In order to avoid confusion with the European Union , the Council of Europe has a distinctive " Council of Europe Logo " , which employs a lower @-@ case " e " in the centre . The Logo is not meant to be a substitute for the flag , which the Council flies in front of and in its headquarters , annexes and field office premises . 

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 The flag , or features of it , are often used in the logos of organisations of companies which stress a pan @-@ European element , for example European lobbyist groups or transnational shipping companies . 

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 Inspiration for the € symbol itself came from the Greek epsilon ( Є ) – a reference to the cradle of European civilisation – and the first letter of the word Europe , crossed by two parallel lines to ' certify ' the stability of the euro . 

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 The flag has been used to represent Europe in its wider sense . The Council of Europe covers all but three European countries , thereby representing much of Europe . 
