A few words on what the logo is all about could further enlighten the meaning and significance of the Jubilee. This is emphasized as each part of the image was carefully selected to evoke a particular meaning. Naturally the aesthetic value is important, but so is the functional!

The majority of the different parts of the logo are drawn on top of a solid black background. To many, this colour can evoke a void or emptiness. Here it represents all the innumerable moments in history or time. It is space and time without a finite beginning or end.

The following layer of the image –always from back to front- is a blue star-like shape. It emerges from the black background. This shape represents Europe but drawn in an incomplete manner! It is somewhat rugged; we cannot view its full real form, for now!

The layers that follow change in colour to a bright, shiny metallic gold; these stand out more! A clean polished metal requires refining, purifying from the raw product. Precious metals need to undergo a series of procedures so that its interior beauty becomes visible or externalized.

The gold coloured outline of the Rock follows. It shows its outer shape, but we can still appreciate what has gone before: the blue star on the black backdrop. This shape of Gibraltar is a part of the layers that follow. For some reason, it is simply a gold coloured shape, yet there is something of great beauty about it.

Our Lady of Europe with the Infant Child comes next. She appears enthroned in total simplicity or humility in the left bottom corner. Yet, compared to the other components of the picture she seems small in scale. Despite of this, isn’t she the part that stands out the more? It is this “smallness” that shows Our Lady’s manner of doing things –her modus operandi.

Surrounding Our Lady is the gold ring of stars and the figure of “700”. It is still not a full circle but the stars show their beauty and shine. These represent Europe again when Our Lady and the Child Jesus are at the centre.

In short, there is a historical movement in the logo, when Our Lady appears things change to show their original true beauty. From something so small, great leaps have been made.