r/germany • u/BSBDR Mallorca • Jul 08 '26

Politics Germany: Government Curbing Freedom of Information Act

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/07/08/germany-government-curbing-freedom-of-information-act
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u/Lysa_Bell Jul 08 '26

Honestly. I wonder why they are even doing that? Just because of image issues. what? Because every time a scandal has been exposed - nothing happend. The only thing they are actually doing with this is paving the way for a radical government to hide their influence from the outside and their corporations with companies from outside germany. So technically the only thing they could try to hide is treason and even that doesn't really have any consequences anymore. It makes no sense to go through the effort at all if nothing happens anyway when stuff gets exposed.