Reading Time: 2 minutesGermany Chancellor Friedrich Merz has supported a move not to fly the rainbow flag — a symbol of the LGBTQI+ community — on the Reichstag building in Berlin during Pride celebrations. The decision not to raise the flag at parliament was criticized by opposition parties the environmentalist Greens and the socialist Left Party, among others. When asked about that decision, Merz told German public broadcaster ARD on Tuesday that “the Bundestag is not a circus tent” on which flags can be hoisted at will. “On all other days, the German flag and the European flag are flown on the German Bundestag, and no others. “But we’re talking about the German parliament here, and in the German parliament, we don’t fly any flags every day, but the German national flag and the European flag,” he said.