Posts: Alexander Dix
The European Academy for Freedom of Information and Data Protection (EAID) has posed questions on data protection and freedom of information for the European Parliament elections on 9 June 2024. The answers given by political parties in Germany are documented below. The document is limited to the responses received by 29 May. It will be updated as further responses are received.
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Text messages (SMS, WhatsApp messages etc.) have become a widespread means of communications, often replacing e-mail altogether. This is true for private individuals as well as for government officials. It is well known how important text messages were for Angela Merkel. Whether this is is also the case with her successor is not yet known. The President of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also uses text messages intensively. For example, she communicated in ...
September 28 is the International Freedom of Information Day.
A good occasion to remind the new majority in the Federal German Parliament that the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Offcial Documents (Tromsoe Convention) entered into force in December 2020, but not in the Federal Republic of Germany, a country which has been a member of the Council of Europe for 70 years now. Nevertheless the past ...
Vaccines developed in record time to protect against Covid-19 have been called the key out of the pandemic, even though it is not yet clear whether vaccinated people can continue to transmit the virus. At the same time, it is reported that manufacturers may not be able to meet their delivery commitments, or may be delayed. The question of liability for vaccine damage, which has naturally played an important role ...
Vaccines developed in record time to protect against Covid-19 have been called the key out of the pandemic, even though it is not yet clear whether vaccinated people can continue to transmit the virus. At the same time, it is reported that manufacturers may not be able to meet their delivery commitments, or may be delayed. The question of liability for vaccine damage, which has naturally played an important role in the negotiations between the EU Commission and the ...