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Of course the German Government is a Telemediendiensteanbieter and has to provide an impressum:
Bundesregierung | Impressum

Addendum to the above

I went to the homepage of the German government (that makes me a customer, right?) and the only email address I can find is for media requests.

I think a lawsuit is merited here.

Die Expertise, ein gesamtes Programm zu programmieren, ist nicht vorhanden.

Spokesman of the German Home Office (BMI, in charge of the "Federal Trojan Horse" exposed by the CCC) at the Federal Press Conference 2011-10-12.

The German government is clear in this point: Until 2020 and later on wind will deliver the bulk of the additional energy required. http://www.bundesregierung.de/Webs/Breg/DE/Energiekonzept/ErneuerbareEnergien/erneuerbare-energien.html explains it quite well, although in German. The installation (and renewal) of windgenerators, biomass, photovoltaics, improved insulation of housing, an intelligent grid and pump water storages will produce and deliver the electric energy.

This will require a huge investment, but the investment will be done now, at a time when Germany is doing comparably well. Bottomline is: the conventional sources of energy are finite. So better create the turnaround early than being forced by the circumstances to do it in 20-30 years when conventional energy is getting even more scarce and the cost of tranformation will be much higher. After all it remains to be a technical challenge now that an old policital conflict ended.

Is it achievable? I believe so.

The way how Germany changed energy production in the recent 10 years shows quite clearly what can be done in comparably short time with a combination of opening the grid, fostering competition (like having many instead of just a few energy producing companies), subsidies for investments and a market for electric energy comparable to a stock exchange. A clever mix of regulation and market instruments can induce huge changes at bearable cost for the customers.

To say it in all clarity: Neither coal nor natural gas will be the planned replacement.

Probably there might be the requirement to use fossil fuels for a limited amount of time, but the German government did not only end nuclear power again. This decision resumes and enforces a process of transformation that was already started in 2002 by the Leftist-Green coalition, a move towards Renewables as a major source of energy in Germany.

Thankfully the constitution has a word to say here:

Article 102 [Abolition of capital punishment]

Capital punishment is abolished.

Do your home work.

From the german Grundgesetz (Basic Law/Constitution)
http://www.bundesregierung.de/nn_22672/Webs/Breg/E N/Federal-Government/FunctionAndConstitutionalBasi s/BasicLaw/ContentofBasicLaw/content-of-basic-law. html

Article 5 [Freedom of expression]

(1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.
(2) These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal honor.
(3) Art and scholarship, research, and teaching shall be free. The freedom of teaching shall not release any person from allegiance to the constitution.

Whats happening now is a direct consequence of paragraph 2.

Article 5 Freedom of Expression

(1) Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship.
(2) These rights shall find their limits in the provisions of general laws, in provisions for the protection of young persons, and in the right to personal honor.
(3) Art and scholarship, research, and teaching shall be free. The freedom of teaching shall not release any person from allegiance to the constitution.

English translation of the german constitution

AFAIK, Germany has no codified freedom of speech clause. Certainly there's quite a bit of censorship -- bans on nazi propaganda, for instance. In Germany, if a bill like this passes, it's probably enforceable. Whereas here in the US, it would be challenged on first amendment grounds.

From article 5 of the german constitution aka Basic Law:
"Every person shall have the right freely to express and disseminate his opinions in speech, writing, and pictures and to inform himself without hindrance from generally accessible sources. Freedom of the press and freedom of reporting by means of broadcasts and films shall be guaranteed. There shall be no censorship."

Read it sometime, especially the first 20 articles, it's actually quite good:
http://www.bundesregierung.de/nn_22672/Webs/Breg/E N/Federal-Government/FunctionAndConstitutionalBasi s/BasicLaw/ContentofBasicLaw/content-of-basic-law. html/cen//

The "founding fathers&mothers" did not install the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Schriften. Neither did they install the Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle Multimedia-Diensteanbieter. Instead, they wrote a constitution which in article 5 plainly says "(1) Everybody has the right to [...] unhindered access to information from commonly available sources [...] Censorship does not happen". These are the actual words of the German constitution (modulo my rough translation)

Much like in the USA (where there are numerous Supreme Court decisions on the subject), the government may restrict this right under very specific circumstances. Again, article 5: "(2) These rights are limited by the general legislation, the laws for protection of the youth and the right of personal honor."

The personal honor provision allows the government to outlaw libel, the youth protection clause allows it to restrict access to adult material. Note that there is no Nazi speech clause there (as would be expected if your statements were true). In fact, i doubt that the ominous "general legislation" clause in paragraph (2) covers the banning of swastikas and such, but since no Nazi has ever tried to challenge this at Germany's Bundesverfassungsgericht, we have yet to find out.

The disturbing trend behind the recent attempts to declare unwanted information illegal is that we seem to think that bad things will go away if we don't talk about them. They won't.

And the Weimar Republic did not die because Nazis were allowed to speak. It died because there weren't enough Democrats around to answer them.

This is the German version...

What I want to know is: who are the politicians making all of these progressive decisions

The German Government is a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Green Alliance.

On the Bundesministerium Wirtschaft und Technologie's (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology's) site you can see more about who makes up the ministry. The BMWi's site also carries more information about this story.

Heise is a leading German news source. You'll find more information about similar technology news there.

The German CIA fact file has some more background about Germany.

Most of these sites have English versions, but there's not always the same level of detail. If you can stand its translations, it might be worthwhile firing up Babelfish or a similar translation service.

But certainly Germany is economically the most powerful of the participating countries and tries to get the financial politics under its control. The "stability rules" which all participating countries have to follow, were forced upon them by the export-oriented politics of Germany.

When the decision for the Euro was made, the French government tried to get equal power as Germany, and then proposed that the ECB should be located in Germany, but its president should be french. So even when it's a dutchman now it was a victory for the German government to show France, that it will be in the second row in future Europe.

This is just a hint, how german dominated the EU is. I'm german myself, so I can say this unbiased.

Oh and you shouldn't forget that the Deutschmark is/was official currency in occupied Kosovo and in pro-forma-yugoslavian (sp?) Montenegro, and is still inofficial currency in large part of Eastern Europe.

Some historians think, that the economic control of Eastern Europe which Hitler tried to get by occupation has now been achieved by Germany through the backdoor.

I have a problem seeing Slashdot turn into some kind of national US media coverage. As you probably gather from the decrepit (I'm not sure if this link is nexessary. It's pathetic anyway, so in contrary to established Web principles, please don't follow it) state of my English, I'm not from the US, instead I'm from Vee-haf-vayz-of-makink-yoo-talk -land; so, frankly, all this Slashdot coverage is of absolutely no use or interest to me, and neither is it for the 6.8 billion people on Earth who happen to be non-US citizens. Please stop it. Thank you. Cover stories like colonizing Mars instead.