Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer purportedly wants to force messaging providers such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Threema to provide plain text chats to law enforcement agencies on a court order. This means that the leader of the Christian Social Union (CDU) basically wants to ban messaging end-to-end encryption since for keeping cleartext logs of encrypted chats the apps would either have to be injected with some sort of backdoor or the encryption removed altogether. The proposal also says that the freedom to use messaging encryption has to be “reconciled with the unavoidable needs of security agencies”” to have access to communications.”
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/german-minister-wants-secure-messengers-to-decrypt-chats/