Just today the German online IT magazine heise.de published an article [0] claiming that the interior ministers (home secretaries?) will expect from social platforms like WhatsApp to implement backdoors so that the government can access a copy of the data. This is a wish they've been having for ages.

So, there's clearly an opposition.

[0] https://www.heise.de/news/Innenminister-Angriff-auf-Verschlu...