The proposed Whistleblower Protection Draft Law of the Federal Government does not sufficiently protect whistleblowing, criticised a media alliance of German trade unions and media companies. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) backs its german members’ demands, the German Journalists’ Association (DJV) and the German Journalists’ Union (dju in ver.di), in calling for a tightening of the draft law. On 29 September 2022, the Bundestag debated for the first time theFederal Government’s draft law to better protect whistleblowers from reprisals as part of the transposition process of incorporating the EU directive into German law. The German draft law was weakened…