ASSASSINATIONS. RIOTS. ECONOMIC COLLAPSE. But never fear — the EU is on top of it. They’ve designed a new logo:

Forget the stars, hail the stripes. The European Union’s image is set for an overhaul, with the replacement of its gold star flag by a dazzling new bar-code-style logo.

The new design, which has been commissioned from the ultra-fashionable Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, will bleed all of the colours of the national flags of EU nations alongside each other.

Ooh. A bar code — that’ll show all those people who say the EU is going to make them into indistinguishable cogs in a great supranational machine!