The 2015 eurozone commemorative program marking thirty years of the EU flag was issued collectively across all member states, with each national mint producing its own version sharing a common reverse. Ireland's participation carried a quiet irony: the flag itself was adopted in 1985 under Jacques Delors, the same Commission president whose single market ambitions would later deepen the integration that a majority of Irish voters initially rejected in the 2008 Lisbon Treaty referendum before passing it on a second vote in 2009.
The 2015 eurozone commemorative program marking thirty years of the EU flag was issued collectively across all member states, with each national mint producing its own version sharing a common reverse. Ireland's participation carried a quiet irony: the flag itself was adopted in 1985 under Jacques Delors, the same Commission president whose single market ambitions would later deepen the integration that a majority of Irish voters initially rejected in the 2008 Lisbon Treaty referendum before passing it on a second vote in 2009.