Court decision - Ministry of Finance must issue text messages between Lindner and Porsche boss Blume

Was Porsche CEO Oliver Blume in the discussion about synthetic fuels influence on finance minister Christian Lindner? The SMS of the two could provide information.

The Federal Ministry of Finance must issue an exchange of text messages from its former boss Lindner and the Porsche Group.

For years, the association Parlamentwatch has been arguing with the Ministry of Finance whether ex-minister Lindner must issue his SMS with Porsche boss Blume. The administrative court says: Yes.

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Contacts between politics and business are common, but mostly secret: however, the SMS between ex-Federal Finance Minister Lindner and the Porsche boss must be issued, the administrative court in Berlin judges.

Deputies watch is allowed to publish an SMS exchange between Christian Lindner and Oliver Blume. This is about the possible influence of Porsche on the topic of e-fuels.