> Good for Germany and the EU, but how (or why) is the rule of law supposed to make it a taboo? Is it thrown in just to sound nicer, or did they skip a few step

> Good for Germany and the EU, but how (or why) is the rule of law supposed to make it a taboo? Is it thrown in just to sound nicer, or did they skip a few steps in the reasoning? Don't thank Germany too early. The only reason they changed their tune is because a massive number of people reached out to the government representatives in the last few days/weeks. Without that, it would have gone through. Case and point, you can look at the timeline of each country's position on https://fightchatcontrol.eu https://fightchatcontrol.eu and you will see that Germany went from opposing to undecided to opposing again. This is the sad state of affairs today. Privacy and rule of law have nothing to do with it. I personally reached out to many German MEPs and the only ones who bothered to respond and were against CC were from the AFD. Make of that what you will.