May 22, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Sabine_leutheusser-schnarrenberger":
Politics: 24 Jan 12
Politicians from across Germany’s main political parties have condemned the domestic intelligence agency, or Verfassungsschutz, for spying on parliamentarians from the socialist Left party.
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Society: 27 Dec 11
A prominent historian of communist East Germany and its Stasi secret police has called for a ban on the public display of communist era uniforms or insignia.
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National: 27 Dec 11
The German government is riven over whether telecom companies should be allowed to keep customers' data indefinitely. Critics say easier police access to data could have helped solve recently-revealed Neo-nazi murders.
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Society: 23 Dec 11
Germany’s top legal figure has her own troubles with the law. Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger must appear in a Munich court in January to face claims that her dog bit a woman in the hand.
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National: 12 Dec 11
The German intelligence agency has more than 130 active informants in the National Democratic Party (NPD), making a ban on the neo-Nazi party potentially difficult, it was reported on Sunday.
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National: 21 Nov 11
The chairman of parliament's interior affairs defended the German authorities' approach towards far-right extremism on Monday, but said state domestic intelligence agencies needed reform in the wake of a neo-Nazi murder spree.
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Politics: 20 Nov 11
Germany will hold a memorial service for the victims of a neo-Nazi murder spree, while a minister has vowed to compensate their families. A new survey shows most Germans want to ban the far-right National Democratic Party (NPD).
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National: 18 Nov 11
The neo-Nazi terrorist group which killed nine shopkeepers and a policewoman probably involved at least two more people than the four already in the sights of the authorities, Germany’s Federal Public Prosecutor said on Friday.
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National: 13 Nov 11
Police have arrested another suspect in the far-right terror cell case that has shocked Germany. The man is a suspected accomplice of the trio of neo-Nazis thought to have carried out a string of racist killings.
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Science & Technology: 20 Oct 11
Outrage over shoddy government computer spyware created by a private contractor is spurring calls for a federal minister to deal with internet security issues and pledges by the authorities they will develop such software internally.
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Science & Technology: 16 Oct 11
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has praised hackers in the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) for bringing to light the scope and capabilities of spyware used by the state to catch criminals.
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National: 11 Oct 11
Germany’s ruling coalition of the Christian Democratic Union and the Free Democratic Party have found a fresh source of conflict in the new controversy over the government’s Trojan spyware.
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National: 30 Aug 11
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has welcomed an initiative from several German states to introduce electronic ankle monitors for criminals on probation.
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Society: 1 Aug 11
Leading German conservatives have ruled out putting same-sex partnerships on the same footing as marriage, dousing an effort by Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger to put gay marriage on the agenda.
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National: 20 Jul 11
Germany will not name and shame sex criminals by putting their details on the internet, Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has stated, knocking back a suggestion made by a police union leader.
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Society: 10 Jul 11
The Catholic Church in Germany plans to open up a decade of personnel files to criminologist researchers, according to a magazine report, in a bid to facilitate an independent investigation into sexual abuse at Church-run institutions.
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Politics: 1 Jul 11
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has sharply criticised Denmark’s decision to reintroduce border controls and demanded EU officials take action against the Scandinavian country.
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Society: 29 Jun 11
The German authorities will be able to more easily obtain information on bank account transfers and airline passengers, but will have other powers curtailed under an overhaul of anti-terrorism laws announced on Wednesday.
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Politics: 12 May 11
Germany has slammed Denmark’s unilateral decision to reintroduce tighter border controls, warning that it breaches Europe’s cherished Schengen agreement allowing free movement.
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National: 11 May 11
Bavaria has refused to extradite a convicted Nazi war criminal back to the Netherlands, from where he broke out of jail in 1952, Germany's justice ministry said Wednesday.
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Politics: 10 May 11
Philipp Rösler, Germany’s health minister, will take over the Economics Ministry it was announced on Tuesday, as he prepares to lead the pro-business Free Democratic Party.
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Politics: 2 May 11
Tensions are mounting within Angela Merkel’s centre-right coalition over tougher laws to battle terrorism, with differences brought into stark relief by the recent arrest of three suspected al-Qaida-linked extremists.
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Politics: 19 Apr 11
Despite Germany‘s recent tilt towards clean energy, most politicians are still being ferried around in gas-guzzling government cars, according to a survey by environmentalists which grades individual leaders.
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Politics: 15 Apr 11
German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich wants to significantly increase security officials’ power to fight terrorism, a move the Justice Ministry opposes, a media report said Friday.
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National: 6 Apr 11
The centre-right coalition cabinet has decided to remove online child pornography, burying an earlier initiative to block it by former Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen, dubbed “Censorsula” by internet activists.
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Politics: 1 Apr 11
After a decade as chairman of the Free Democratic Party, Guido Westerwelle is considering bowing to intense pressure and stepping down in the wake of poor election performances, media reported Friday.
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Politics: 31 Mar 11
Economy Minister Rainer Brüderle has thrown fuel on the fire of the potentially explosive debate within his government over nuclear power, as his Free Democratic Party inches closer to a leadership battle.
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Politics: 9 Mar 11
Bavaria’s conservative Christian Social Democrats are no strangers to anti-Islam sentiment, but a recent remarks by Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich has inspired a political rival to suggest that his party needed to integrate as well.
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Society: 8 Mar 11
The federal government is planning a meeting with human resources directors from Germany's 30 DAX companies to tackle the issue of an absence of women in top management jobs, according to a newspaper report.
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National: 7 Mar 11
Hessian Interior Minister Boris Rhein on Monday reacted to the deadly shooting of two American servicemen at the Frankfurt Airport last week, announcing better security for the US military and increased surveillance of terrorist suspects.
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Politics: 4 Mar 11
Germany’s new Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich reignited a bitter debate over Islam this week after he said the religion did not “belong” in the country, prompting calls for him to give up charge of the government's Islam conference.
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Society: 28 Jan 11
Gay couples in Germany are not allowed to adopt children together – only one partner goes on the papers. But a higher regional court ruling that deemed the law unconstitutional this week may change this.
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Politics: 2 Jan 11
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) has come out in support of beleaguered party leader Guido Westerwelle ahead of a crucial party summit, but says things need to change.
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Politics: 30 Dec 10
The German government said it was "very worried" after a Moscow court sentenced Russia's former richest man Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Thursday to 14 years in jail in his second fraud trial.
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National: 29 Dec 10
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has roundly slapped down a call by Germany’s airports for passengers to be profiled for security checks, warning such discrimination would contravene EU and German laws.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 10
It's understandable that FDP's rank-and-file want to replace their beleaguered leader Guido Westerwelle. But a putsch ahead of state elections would only be counterproductive. An analysis by ZEIT ONLINE’s Michael Schlieben.
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National: 27 Nov 10
Germany's justice minister has suggested that a Nazi wanted by the Netherlands could serve his sentence in Germany, but an application for extradition is unlikely to succeed.
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Politics: 19 Nov 10
The debate over tougher security laws intensified on Friday, with Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger warning against “political exploitation” of heightened terrorism fears.
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Science & Technology: 18 Nov 10
Google Street View, which has sparked a lengthy and heated debate in privacy-conscious Germany, went online overnight.
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Society: 17 Nov 10
Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann on Wednesday said more police were needed in predominately Muslim districts in Germany and Islamists should be banned from using mobile phones and computers to fight terrorism.
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National: 6 Nov 10
The German government is considering a "black list" for airports that do not meet security standards, according to a Saturday report – a move Berlin hopes will boost cargo controls following two parcel bomb incidents in recent weeks.
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National: 3 Nov 10
Federal, state and municipal officials met with immigrant associations on Wednesday in Berlin for a national summit on how to improve integration in Germany. This year's focus was the recognition of foreign job qualifications.
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Politics: 27 Oct 10
The German cabinet on Wednesday backed several proposed changes to immigration laws including cracking down on forced marriages by making them a punishable offence and offering better protection for victims.
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Society: 19 Oct 10
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Tuesday blasted a new TV show in which Stephanie zu Guttenberg, the wife of the Defence Minister, helps expose alleged child abusers via the internet.
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Science & Technology: 18 Oct 10
German ministers have criticised social networking site Facebook for failing to respect privacy, following a report of a serious flaw that allowed non-subscribers access to private data.
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Politics: 11 Oct 10
Outraged Turkish groups and German politicians on Monday demanded an apology from Horst Seehofer after the conservative Bavarian state premier suggested over the weekend Germany put a stop to immigration for Turks and Arabs.
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Politics: 2 Oct 10
The German government is planning to institute an annual pay cap of €500,000 at banks that received federal assistance during the financial crisis, according to a Saturday media report.
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Society: 22 Sep 10
A leading Turkish scholar has likened elements of the latest German debate on integration to racist 19th century notions of “primitive” immigrants who breed uncontrollably.
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Science & Technology: 20 Sep 10
German politicians on Monday called for comprehensive data protection regulations ahead of a summit in Berlin on handling hot-button issues such as geotagging and the controversial online mapping service Google Street View.
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Politics: 26 Aug 10
Bundesbank official Thilo Sarrazin faced increasing pressure from across the political spectrum due to his controversial views on Muslims and immigrants on Thursday, as calls grew for him to leave the SPD and his central bank post.
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Politics: 18 Aug 10
Tributes flowed on Wednesday for the widely admired Bavarian Green party politician Sepp Daxenberger, who died of cancer during the night, just three days after his wife succumbed to the same illness.
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National: 18 Aug 10
Coalition politicians are demanding Google be forced to gather residents’ consent to have their homes photographed for Street View rather than wait for them to object, as cabinet prepared Wednesday to discuss changes to the law.
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National: 9 Aug 10
The German government said Monday it believed there may be a way to bring to justice an SS hitman who has lived as a free man in Germany since escaping from a Dutch prison in 1952.
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Politics: 6 Aug 10
Moves by the government to maintain the disputed practice of preventative detention for dangerous criminals are being blocked by members of its own coalition, the Free Democrats, setting the stage for another internal brawl.
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National: 3 Aug 10
Germany’s Constitutional Court ruled on Tuesday that the law denying unwed fathers custody rights to their children without the mother’s permission is unconstitutional, opening the way for automatic joint custody.
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Politics: 2 Aug 10
Telemarketing firms are flouting a law against making unwanted sales calls, prompting Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger to announce Monday she was considering toughening the rules.
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Society: 24 Jul 10
Fathers who are not married to the mothers of their children could soon automatically have equal rights over their children, with Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger preparing to change the law in their favour.
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Politics: 20 Jul 10
Several of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet ministers are reportedly threatening to sink her centre-right coalition’s proposed austerity package only weeks after they agreed to make deep spending cuts.
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Society: 15 Jul 10
Police are struggling to keep the internet clean of child pornography, with four out of 10 offending sites still accessible in Germany a week after they are posted, media reported Thursday.
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National: 26 Jun 10
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has called on IT giant Apple to make clear what personal data it is keeping about its customers, for how long, and what for.
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National: 25 Jun 10
Germany's Federal Court of Justice on Friday overturned the conviction of a lawyer who advised the family of a comatose elderly woman to cut off her feeding tube in a landmark euthanasia case.
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Politics: 23 Jun 10
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has dismissed a plan by state counterparts to introduce driving bans for convicted criminals, media reported Wednesday.
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Politics: 24 May 10
Disastrous polling figures have led to serious public squabbling within the Free Democrats, with former leader Wolfgang Gerhardt leading the charge against party leader Guido Westerwelle.
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National: 26 Apr 10
With riots expected at the annual May Day festivities in Berlin and elsewhere, Germany's centre-right coalition government bickered on Monday over whether harsher punishments should be enacted against those who attack police officers.
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National: 23 Apr 10
As Germany’s 25 million Catholics await word on whether the Vatican has accepted embattled Bishop Walter Mixa’s resignation, senior Church members on Friday expressed relief over – and respect for – Mixa’s decision to step down.
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Politics: 3 Apr 10
Journalists who publish leaked government information would be able to protect their sources from exposure under planned laws to enshrine stronger press freedom, the German Justice Ministry has announced.
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National: 30 Mar 10
The debate over whether child pornography websites should be blocked or shut down reignited in Germany on Tuesday, as the EU Commission moved to censor offending content.
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Society: 24 Mar 10
Trust in the Catholic Church has taken a heavy blow, a poll released Wednesday revealed, with barely one in six Germans saying they had confidence in the Church in the wake of the child sex abuse scandal.
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National: 22 Mar 10
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger praised Bavaria’s Catholic conference of bishops on Monday for their commitment to work with law enforcement to clarify accusations of child sex abuse at Church institutions.
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Politics: 17 Mar 10
The hailstorm of criticism that has battered Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle lately over his travel entourage was partly driven by homophobia, his ministerial colleague Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said Wednesday.
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National: 9 Mar 10
Pressure was mounting on Germany's Catholic Church to offer compensation to sexual abuse victims Tuesday, as Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger called for ''a piece of justice'' for victims.
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National: 8 Mar 10
Pope Benedict XVI's brother has said he was never aware of sexual abuse in the famous boys choir in Regensburg he headed for three decades. Meanwhile politicians are demanding a longer statute of limitations for such crimes.
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Science & Technology: 3 Mar 10
Internet pirates who repeatedly download illegally copied music, movies and other content will not have their internet service cut off in Germany, Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said Wednesday.
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National: 2 Mar 10
In a victory for privacy advocates, Germany’s highest court on Tuesday knocked down an anti-terrorism law that allows authorities to store all phone and internet records of private citizens.
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Science & Technology: 23 Feb 10
Federal data protection commissioner Peter Schaar on Tuesday called for a review of internet search engine Google’s market dominance, as the company promised to bring its Street View application to Germany by the end of the year.
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National: 23 Feb 10
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Tuesday accused the Catholic Church of failing to cooperate with officials in the investigation of alleged child sexual abuse at Jesuit schools.
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Society: 7 Feb 10
Google's "Street View" faces a new hurdle in Germany, with Consumer Minister Ilse Aigner branding it on Sunday a “million-fold violation of the private sphere” and demanding the internet giant get additional consent from people photographed.
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National: 1 Feb 10
The German government is reportedly preparing to hunt down drivers guilty of traffic violations in other EU countries in order to collect a potential windfall in fines.
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National: 15 Dec 09
A controversial law forcing communications companies to keep records of customers’ phone and internet use for six months was to be scrutinised Tuesday by the Constitutional Court after 34,000 people lodged appeals against it.
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National: 3 Dec 09
German child custody laws discriminate against single fathers and should be changed, the European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday.
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Politics: 28 Nov 09
German President Horst Köhler has hammered another nail in the coffin of a controversial law to block child pornography on the internet by refusing to sign it, news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
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Politics: 26 Nov 09
Germany's data protection commissioner Peter Schaar has slammed the EU’s plan to share citizens’ bank data with the United States as an unacceptable breach of privacy, daily Frankfurter Rundschau reported on Thursday.
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National: 23 Nov 09
Germany will send observers to the trials of the five men suspected of plotting the September 11 terrorist attacks to ensure they are not sentenced to death on the basis of evidence provided by Berlin, a spokesman said on Monday.
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Politics: 14 Nov 09
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger has called for Germany’s parliamentary terms to be lengthened from four to five years, the daily Rheinischen Post reported Saturday.
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National: 13 Nov 09
German Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger said on Friday Berlin would try to stop an EU agreement to transfer bank information to the United States.
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Society: 24 Aug 09
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, voted Forbes magazine's most powerful woman in the world for the fourth year running, called on women Monday to fight for their right to equal pay.
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Politics: 27 Jun 08
Democratic US presidential candidate Barack Obama - widely adored in Germany - has been slammed by German politicians for comments supporting the death penalty for child rapists.
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