In order to monitor encrypted communication, investigators will in future, according to the Senate draft and the Änderungen der Abgeordneten, not only be allowed to hack IT systems but also to secretly enter suspects’ apartments.
If remote installation of the spyware is technically not possible, paragraph 26 explicitly allows investigators to “secretly enter and search premises” in order to gain access to IT systems. In fact, Berlin is thus legalizing – as Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania did before – state intrusion into private apartments in order to physically install Trojans, for example via USB stick.
Germany’s government is not in a good place atm. It’s a big coalition between the center-left (SPD) and the center-right (CDU/CSU). After the previous failed coalition of even more parties.
While the far-right populists (AfD) are gaining ground.
The (previously) center-right parties are pushing hard to the right, and the center-left (Social democrats) do not want to stay behind.
This climate has already bred some pretty evil shit esp. wrt immigration, car industry, and senselessly clinging on to the USA as “our friend and ally”. Willingly rolling over whenever Donnie threatens more tariffs.
The topic of this article seems perfectly in tune with everything so far (e.g. this).
Even more than two?
As a Dutch person, haha. (I don’t actually mind broad coalitions though.)
Due to our 5% hurdle to even get into Bundestag there are not many parties to create coalitions with and they mostly have very different agendas.
The last government failed because one tiny party in the coalition not just refused to corporate but even sabotaged some things. There was no other party in Bundestag to work with because there were only nazis, Russian puppets and the CDU/CSU who were in full opposition mode.
I also believe it would be better to remove the 5% hurdle so there is more to choose from and smaller parties have a chance to gain traction. People would not need to vote for the „lesser evil“, they could just vote exactly what they want.
100%. Every now and again people keep bringing up the idea of introducing a hurdle in the Netherlands as well, and I’m always strongly opposed. It doesn’t even do what people expect it to, and there are other ways to achieve that goal too.
I believe the only ones who profit from this hurdle are the big parties. It’s better for them if there is less choice. I hope for you that it never gets introduced in the Netherlands.
Exactly, and the worst thing is that that’s kind of the point: people don’t like there being so many little parties. So apparently then it’s OK to take away the vote of people who vote for them?
Every now and again they also bring up the idea of introducing a bigger hurdle in Portugal.
Yes. It was called the Jamaica coalition because of the 3 colors representing 3 parties: black=CxU, yellow=liberals, green=Green, but the SPD (Olaf Scholz) is missing in this picture? I’m confused now.brainfartGerman government has been very confusing during the past years, and who benefits? Fucking fascists.
The last one was the traffic light coalition, right? Red (SPD), yellow (FDP) and green (Greens)?