Issued by the Deutsche Bundespost in 1979, this 50 Pfennig stamp commemorates the first direct elections to the European Parliament, a milestone in European democratic integration. The modernist design features a semicircular assembly layout in vivid colors—red, blue, green, black, yellow, and white—symbolizing the diversity and unity of European nations within the Parliament. The inscription “Erste Direktwahl zum Europäischen Parlament” highlights this historic event when citizens of member states directly chose their representatives for the first time.