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This is what LSAP MPs Simone Asselborn and Dan Biancalana asked Prime Minister Xavier Bettel in a parliamentary question.
He replies that the decision to fly the flags at half-mast is a decision taken by the Prime Minister alone, and that this is an exception. The last time this happened alongside national days of mourning was in 2005, when Pope John Paul II died.
As justification, Xavier Bettel also cites diplomatic and historical relations with a country, the nature of the event and the function the person in question had. Xavier Bettel thinks it is unnecessary to legislate when flags should be hoisted halfway.
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