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| Kamil Frymark
The AfD won the parliamentary election in Saxony-Anhalt on 6 September, securing 43.8% of the vote – 23 percentage points more than in 2021. This gave the party 39 seats in the 83-seat Landtag. The CDU, which had previously led the state…
Analyses |
| Anna Kwiatkowska, Kamil Frymark
On 1 September, the German government for the first time attributed the attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on 4 August to Russia (see ‘Armed drone found at Leipzig Airport’) and announced a series of retaliatory measures.
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 5 August, Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior announced that staff at Leipzig/Halle Airport had discovered a drone carrying explosives and a detonator. The device was found in the immediate vicinity of a Ukrainian Antonov…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
At the AfD party congress held in Erfurt on 4–5 July, approximately 600 delegates elected the party’s leadership. Alice Weidel (81.3% of the vote, up from 79.8% in 2024) and Tino Chrupalla (70%, down from 82.7% in 2024) were re-elected as…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
During its party congress in Potsdam (19–21 June), the Left Party (Die Linke) elected a new leadership team. The incumbent chair, Ines Schwerdtner, was re-elected (receiving 86% of the vote, compared with 80% in 2024) and is expected to…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
In an opinion published on 2 June, the European Commission criticised Germany – along with eight other Schengen states, including France, Italy and the Netherlands – for maintaining internal border controls.
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
Federal Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) announced on 29 April that controls at the border with Luxembourg would be lifted at the beginning of May, with enforcement efforts instead focused on the immediate border area. At…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
In the election to the Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament (Landtag) held on 22 March, the CDU emerged victorious with 31% of the vote (+3.3 percentage points compared with the 2021 result). The governing SPD came second with 25.9% (–9.8…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark
On 8 March, the Greens, who have governed Baden-Württemberg since 2011, won the election to the state parliament (Landtag) with 30.2% of the vote (2.4 percentage points down from their 2021 result). The Christian Democratic Union (CDU),…
Analyses |
| Kamil Frymark, Michał Kędzierski
On 29 January, with the votes of the CDU/CSU–SPD coalition and the opposition AfD, the Bundestag adopted a framework law on the protection of critical infrastructure (the KRITIS umbrella law), implementing the EU CER Directive on the…