How should the federal/state split be interpreted? Is it only on the federal level that German politicians has lost all memory of why a surveilliance society is bad? A vote for PES is a vote for EPP! A vote for EPP is a vote for PES! Support the coalition, vote EPP-PES in 2009!
Also, the 2 grand coalition states that opposed the measure were both East German - apparently their memories proved good enough in the end. The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman
However, Saxony's and Saxony-Anhalt's SPD interior ministers would agree to an "improved" version, e.g. internet searches not without prior approval by a judge. And it seems the problem is more that they want to keep their state polices in charge and fear the BKA would take too much of their turf.
Meanwhile, Schäuble proposed to change voting rules in the Bundesrat, bbasically he wants to eliminate abstaining... something even CDU colleagues like Hamburg's mayor reject. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.