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Heiko Maas and the State of Germany Viewed as Increasingly Complicit in EPO Scandals and Toxic UPC Agenda

Summary: It is becoming hard if not impossible to interpret silence and inaction from Maas as a form of endorsement for everything the EPO has been doing, with the German delegates displaying more of that apathy which in itself constitutes a form of complicity

WE PREVIOUSLY wrote about Maas supporting the UPC, which would exacerbate the already-growing problem of patent trolls in Germany. What does Maas want for his country and what does he envision for Europe? The same mess that Battistelli is envisioning?



"The German delegation sometimes expresses strong criticism of Battistelli's reform proposals during Council meetings," one reader recently told us. "But in the end, they almost never vote against any of them.

Heiko Maas sale"An example is the recently-endorsed proposal 'functional allowances' which authorises the payment of additional boni to some selected managers. Its lack of clear criteria and transparency were criticised in the March 2017 Council meeting. Other examples are two reforms voted in the December 2016 Council meeting: the Internal Appeals Committee reform (which bears a great risk that the composition of Battistelli's Internal Appeals Committee will be ruled illegal by the ILO tribunal again; it would be the third time), and the removal of the Boards of Appeals to Haar (which was qualified as both unnecessary and non-urgent by many delegations).

"The cartoon apparently makes fun of the German delegation's indecisive maneuvering."

Rent a Maas



As a reminder, the head of the German delegation might be Battistelli's successor [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] and German parliament (Bundestag) recently did a charade of a vote where only 5% of politicians actually voted [1, 2]. It became a publicity stunt of Team UPC and EPO management; no doubt Maas too was pleased. As far as we're aware, neither he nor Merkel did as little as react to the letter from the International and European Public Services Organisation [1, 2]. It's a disgrace; it damages Germany's reputation in Europe and worldwide.

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