German spy chief calls for more operational freedom to counter threats

BERLIN, Feb 13 () - Germany should beef up its intelligence services and allow them more freedom to act in the face of a ...
Politico Europe

Germany plans to give spies vast new powers in rollback of postwar restraints

Germany’s stringent data protection laws — which are also largely a reaction to the legacy of the East German secret police, or Stasi — restrict the BND further. The agency must, for instance, redact ...
Charter97

Politico: Germany Will Give Sweeping New Powers To Its Foreign Intelligence Agency

Germany is taking steps to strengthen its foreign intelligence agency in a bid to give it sweeping new powers in preparation ...
Yahoo

Germany's Merz may appoint ambassador to Ukraine as head of German intelligence

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is apparently preparing to replace the head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and is considering Martin Jäger, the current German ambassador to Ukraine, for ...
The New York Times

She Ripped German Conservatives on Social Media. They Didn’t Forget.

Heidi Reichinnek, a leader of the far-left Die Linke, was denied a seat on the parliamentary committee that oversees German intelligence agencies. By Christopher F. Schuetze and Jim Tankersley ...
The Times of Israel

German intelligence service must not refer to AfD party as right-wing extremist, court rules

The German domestic intelligence service must not refer to the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as right-wing extremist for now, according to a decision issued by an administrative c ...