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Protesters burning an EU flag in Cyprus in2013
Germany has actually made public burning of the EU flag or that of another nation punishable by as much as 3 years in jail, classifying it as a hate criminal activity.
The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equivalent to the criminal activity of defiling the German flag.
The exact same obtains the EU anthem, Beethoven’s O