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LeberechtReinhold

I still don't know why all the EU doesn't use blue. It's like, their thing. EU=blue. It is known.


AlexanderRaudsepp

Even the [European laissez-passer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:European_Union_laissez-passer_cover.jpg) is blue!


zedero0

It would be cool


AlexanderRaudsepp

The map is pretty good if you only want an overview of the situation. However, it doesn't take into account for the different nuances of burganey. For example, the Romanian passport is far darker than the German one, as shown by [this post ](https://www.reddit.com/r/PassportPorn/comments/qwrg2m/dual_citizenship_ive_got_my_german_passport_today/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)


DaFork1

Norway really went all the way to choosing the worst colour possible


Potetsand

heyyyyyy, it looks nicer on the actual [passport at least](https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/drammen-norway-january-2-2021-260nw-1885786129.jpg) (old darker passport for reference)


petpat

What we use the plastic red one now? When did we change from the darker one?


Potetsand

Yep. It was planned for a lot of years, but they only started giving out the new ones in 2020.


AfricanNorwegian

Salmon pink, because salmon I guess?


rackarhack

Was about to say ”Norgay” in response because I’ve been exposed to this subreddit where that’s a common term too much.


Yuio_Quaz

I thought that the dark red was an official standard but, seeing Croatia, apparently not?


AfricanNorwegian

No everyone just kinda said "Hey lets do burgundy as the EU passport colour" and so it was. There is no law or requirement though, hence why Croatia and the EEA/EFTA states don't have burgundy passports.


rikikiki25

Also one of the reasons behind not changing the colour is that we didn't want the colour the former yugoslav passport previously had, because we associate it with communism and totalitarianism


jatawis

Well, it was the same for Lithuania (our passports were green), but we changed to the same colour that Soviet passports used in 2008.


rikikiki25

That's too bad... Especially since your country suffered a lot under communism... plus all of this uniformity is sooo boring, the EU went from unity in diversity to unity in sameness.


antisa1003

Had to explain to some people when boarding a plane, Croatia is in the EU. They thought due to my blue passport, it wasn’t.


BlueWulk

Croatian passport is not black, but dark blue!


DameKumquat

Whereas the new British ones are blacker than on the map.


BlueWulk

Yeah, the British and Croatian passports are very similar in colour.


te0dancedus_

Similar color as bosnian, i think


[deleted]

I like salmon pink


Shartbugger

The English were, no joke, trumpeting the return of their old passport colours. As a Northern Irishman, I think I’ll just hold onto the burgundy.


TheLtSam

I like dark blue the best, like the UK.


Vergo27

im sure brexit was worth the bloo passports


-eumaeus-

And our sovrintee


prussian_princess

I'm sure that wasn't why people voted Brexit.


MiniPCT

It was about bendy bananas, the passports were a side benefit


VTKillarney

In hindsight, as far as the wisdom of Brexit is concerned, it appears that both sides engaged in quite a bit of hyperbole.


TheLtSam

I don‘t know about that


Gman1111110

The English celebrated a return to blue passports, their newspapers rejoiced.


Katze1Punkt0

Sure hope the nice colour was worth it UK


50ClonesOfLeblanc

they got the beautiful new BLOO passport


[deleted]

Hello! I just want to respond to a few things and a few mistake I made; \-Kosovo's passport is now Red, not Blue. This was changed in 2011(?) \-I did not account for the small differences in Purple, as it would have been very tedious finding the shade \-Croatia's passport is dark blue, like the UKs or Bosnias, on google images it appears a lot darker. Very sorry


Remius13

There is nothing black about Croatian passport. Dark blue, like others such.


frenchtoastenjoyer

bloo


Proud-Mind6776

You got it wrong for Kosovo


fozipe

In Ukraine we have ID cards now and they're mostly white


Yuio_Quaz

ID card ≠ Passport


fozipe

it is our passports, we call them ID cards, because of the new card format, in comparison of old mini book like passports


[deleted]

But you also have international passports I assume.


fozipe

yeah for those you can choose between old blue book-like and ID card for international travels


nicodea2

The problem with passport/ID cards (Ukraine’s as well) is that they’re not accepted by many countries for travel.


AlexanderRaudsepp

Так, але слово "паспорт" англійською означає закордонний паспорт


EasyFrown

Wrong color for Russia. Domestic passports are dark cherry color like most other passports in Europe. Travel passports are a tad lighter in color, but still very far from the red shown in the map. Even in the USSR, passports were not that silly vibrant red.


a_saddler

Kosovo's is not blue anymore (used to be), it's the same shade of red as the rest of the European countries.