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Friedrich Merz's stance against displaying the rainbow flag at the German parliament for the upcoming Christopher Street Day celebrations has sparked criticism from the opposition lawmakers.View ...

German Chancellor and CDU party leader Friedrich Merz is facing significant backlash from his political opponents after rejecting calls to fly a Pride flag at the Bundestag, which he said was "not a ...

Germany's chancellor supported the move not to fly the rainbow flag on the Reichstag building, saying "the Bundestag is not a circus tent." Meanwhile, Germans try to keep cool amid heatwave ...

Bundestag President Julia Klöckner has said rainbow Pride flags must be removed from deputies' offices.

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Germany has flagged the Chinese AI app DeepSeek as illegal over data privacy concerns, pressuring Apple and Google to remove it under the EU’s Digital Services Act.