#GERMANY: Bill Would Shrink Bloated Parliament

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Germany’s parliament is bulging at the seams — and the coalition government wants to put it on a diet.

A new draft law would fix the number of lawmakers in the Bundestag at 630 (down from the current 736.)

“If we don’t change anything, the Bundestag will continue to grow,” Green Party lawmaker Till Steffen told journalists in Berlin. “We want to safeguard the parliament’s ability to act.”

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#GERMANY: Parliament's Computers Have Been Hacked For Six Months, Agency Reveals

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Unknown attackers have been targeting the computer network of the Bundestag, the German parliament for around six months, rather than since May, when the attacks became known. The hackers used several waves of 'Trojan' viruses to gradually extend their access to the network piece by piece. The infiltration was only discovered in May.