German Chancellor Olaf Scholz must provide information about confidential remarks made while he was finance minister regarding the long-running Cum-Ex financial scandal, Berlin’s Tagesspiegel newspaper reported on its website on Friday. The Berlin administrative court confirmed to dpa that it had taken the decision after an urgent application from the Tagesspiegel citing the chancellery. The ruling states that the chancellery has knowledge of a confidential background briefing that Scholz conducted with a number of journalists in September 2020 regarding the illegal Cum-Ex dividend trades, whi…