German MPs Vote to Expand Spy Agency Powers for Covert Operations
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Government says overhaul will strengthen response to security threats, while critics warn of weakened civil liberties, oversight
Germany has broken a taboo in its security policy: its spies will be able to move from watching the opponent to sabotaging its operations. The Bundestag approved on Friday what the...
The opposition warns about the risks to the rule of law, while Berlin provides its intelligence services with unprecedented response and digital sabotage capabilities.
In the region of Saxony-Anhalt the elections have recently won the radical right-wing Alternative party for Germany (AfD) and in Berlin the radical left of Die Linke (The Left), two formations with a clear pro-Russian inclination. The Bundestag has reformed the German intelligence services on Friday and one of the main changes is that they will be able to restrict their information to the regional governments, in order to prevent it from falling…
On Friday, the Bundestag passed the law on the reform of intelligence law. Christoph de Vries, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior, explains what possibilities the German secret services now have.
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