Overview

• CDU/CSU parliamentary leader Jens Spahn said the Union opposes any suspicionless control of chats, signaling resistance to blanket scanning requirements.
• Berlin’s interior and justice ministries remain at odds over the file, leaving Germany’s decisive vote unsettled as capitals prepare their positions.
• The Danish presidency’s draft narrows automated checks to images, videos without sound and URLs using client-side scanning before encryption.
• Opposition has broadened with Bitkom, eco, the German Journalists’ Association, the German Bar Association and the Kinderschutzbund warning of fundamental-rights risks, false positives and a scalable surveillance infrastructure.
• Signal reiterated it would leave the European market rather than weaken end‑to‑end encryption, while WhatsApp warns the proposal would still undermine secure messaging.