Germany to make fax illegal?
- German parliament to stop using fax machines
No longer allowed at the Bundestag from the start of the next legislative period, the chamber's Council of Elders decided on Thursday. - Young parliamentarians in particular were surprised at how often fax was used instead of emails in the Bundestag.
- Marco Buschmann, parliamentary secretary of the FDP (Free Democratic Party), said he was pleased to see that the “Bundestag had arrived in the 21st century.”
- Left Party Parliamentary Secretary Jan Korte called the decision a “blatant change” government revealed it was still using over 900 fax machines.
- Angela Merkel's chancellery had just “a few” fax machines — but is known to rely on a pneumatic tube system