Not running for re-election, her government engulfed in scandals and conflicts of interest around the purchase of COVID-19 masks, Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is rewriting ethics rules.

The German Government is currently considering a first draft presented by the Ministry of Justice to transpose the EU Directive on Whistleblower Protection. Blueprint for Free Speech has analysed the draft law, which is still incomplete and should be improved further.

Two members of the ruling party in Germany's Parliament have been accused of profiting from COVID-19 mask deals that brought calls for closer scrutiny of lobbyists' dealings with politicians.

An enormous security breach has led to personal information and documents belonging to hundreds of German politicians, being posted online, leaving the country’s security experts scrambling to find out how.

Public support for Edward Snowden in Germany has been overwhelming from the moment he exposed the US-led mass surveillance program in June 2013.