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Civil liberty groups say the EU data retention directive violates privacy rights (Photo: Matthew Kenwrick)

EU data law hits set-back in Germany

Germany’s new justice minister, Heiko Maas, wants to delay turning the EU's controversial data retention directive into German law.

His announcement, made in an interview with German weekly Der Spiegel on Sunday (5 January), comes amid legal action by the European Commission and despite the fact two leading parties in Germany's grand coalition want to go ahead.

Maas hails from the centre-left SPD party, which wants to postpone it.

But German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre...

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

Civil liberty groups say the EU data retention directive violates privacy rights (Photo: Matthew Kenwrick)

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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