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German climate protection act largely incompatible with fundamental rights
- sunmountain 5y agoThe highest German court, the Federal Court of Justice, has ruled that the climate protection bill issued by the current Government is unconstitutional as it puts the burden of CO2 reduction to the generations to come in an unbalanced way, leaving today's kids tasked with reducing its release in a very short time. This is an attack on the freedom. Now the German government has one year time to repair the busted law.
- Tomte 5y agoPosting German-language articles is mostly useless here. You can usually find good English articles, as well. In this case: https://www.dw.com/en/german-climate-law-is-partly-unconstitutional-top-court-rules/a-57369917 https://www.dw.com/en/german-climate-law-is-partly-unconstit...
- sunmountain 5y agoTherefor the summary, but thank you for the hint. Makes sense.
- goatcode 5y agoSo it's not a freedom-of, it's a freedom-from (in this case, things being some definition of unfair).