Germany plans to give spies vast new powers in rollback of postwar restraints. Berlin is preparing its foreign intelligence service for a world where the U.S. halts intelligence sharing.

Pip@feddit.org · 5 months ago

einkorn@feddit.org · 5 months ago

You might want to switch to the German pages for some juicer bits. I mainly posted the English page for the international audience here.

Short summary for non-German speakers:

Döpfner is very likely implicated to some degree in the Cum Ex tax scams
He is linked to Peter Thiel via his sons endeavors in the US
He used his position and influence to push support for political parties a the publisher
The controversy around Julian Reichelts abuse of power at the Axel Springer Verlag highlights a “tech bro”-like environments at Bild, the main paper of the publisher.

Pip@feddit.org · 5 months ago

Okay, that warrants concern about the publisher, but none of it directly implicates Politico Europe.

Did he ever use his losigom and influence to pish support for far right parties? Which parties?