Overview

• Green MPs Paula Piechotta and Janosch Dahmen have delivered Chancellor Friedrich Merz a 90-item questionnaire demanding full disclosure on mask procurement under ex-minister Jens Spahn.
• The catalogue leverages Margaretha Sudhof’s 170-page probe alleging Spahn ignored specialist advice to grant €1.5 billion in no-bid contracts to firms such as Fiege and Emix Trading and waived potential damage claims.
• Piechotta and Dahmen have set an August 22 deadline for Merz’s responses to restore public confidence in government transparency.
• Attempts to form a parliamentary inquiry or to re-hear Sudhof’s findings in the budget and health committees have been stymied by coalition members.
• With around 100 supplier lawsuits seeking over €2.3 billion and storage costs topping €500 million, the federal government faces escalating financial liabilities.