(S+) Freedom of Information Act: These revelations have enabled the IFG

The CDU is probably planning to restrict access to state information. It is about a law with which editors have already exposed many abuses.

Information law expert Friedrich Schoch of the University of Freiburg criticizes the CDU/CSU's push to abolish the Freedom of Information Act (IFG), in its current form, which has been in effect since 2006. The CDU/CSU's demand is set out in the coalition working group's paper "Reducing Bureaucracy, Modernizing the State, Modernizing the Judiciary." "A genuine contribution to reducing bureaucracy would be to develop the IFG into a transparency l…