BerlinDraft law would exempt energy, finance and health from disclosure.
More than 680,000 people signed a petition against curbing the law that gives journalists ministry documents.
Germany’s interior ministry placed the exemptions inside a critical-infrastructure bill, the transparency group FragDenStaat says.
Agencies can already withhold sensitive data, FragDenStaat says, and the government conceded in court no request ever leaked any.
The ministry’s draft still needs cabinet approval and a Bundestag vote.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org leans critical
- reports the 680,000-signature FragDenStaat petition and the ministry's move to hide FOI limits inside a critical-infrastructure law
Sources: netzpolitik.org