"🇪🇺🇩🇪-" represents the European Union (🇪🇺) and Germany (🇩🇪). It signifies the membership of Germany in the European Union. "East Germany-" refers to the eastern part of Germany that existed as a separate socialist state from 1949 to 1990, following World War II. It was known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and was politically aligned with the Soviet Union.