Originally Posted by
fassy
They for sure try, but no... at the moment they are still on the hook to give you back your money. There is a move to change that, but it hasn’t made it way through the process yet - actually not sure it would even be approved.
If Germany or the EU retrospectively changes the law on refunds then I can think of a few laws that have benefitted Germany that a few EU partners would be demanding to be retrospectively changed as well

.