This topic is far, far removed from anything to do with the EU changing name and needs a thread in its own right.

My apologies to all who wrote on this interesting topic. Yesterday I tried to transfer the contributions on this to a separate thread, and whoops! they seem to have vanished in the process. I should have known better than to attempt something that is trickier than meets the eye ...

Sigh of relief! The posts I thought had gone missing have reappeared under a new thread with the old title 'EU to Change Name' .