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Der Vorfall ereignete sich Anfang August, als eine mit Sprengstoff beladene Drohne am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle in der Nähe ukrainischer Transportmaschinen festgesetzt wurde. Der Sprengstoff zündete nicht aufgrund eines kleinen Zufalls, wobei zwei teilweise betankte Maschinen in der Nähe waren. Eine Explosion hätte ein großes Inferno verursachen können.
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Die Bundesregierung wird weitere Sicherheitsmaßnahmen am Flughafen Leipzig/Halle und anderer kritischer Infrastruktur ankündigen.
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Die Nato wird auf ihrem nächsten Gipfel eine koordinierte Reaktion auf hybride Bedrohungen beschließen.
Possible · Within months

After the state elections in September, CDU chairman Friedrich Merz is calling for a fundamental debate about a new narrative for Germany, criticizing the current policy in view of falling poll numbers and suggesting that Ludwig Erhard's sentence 'prosperity for all' be supplemented with 'for all generations'. He also commented on the hybrid threat from Russia and the Volkswagen crisis and emphasized that Germany must remain an industrial country.
According to plan, the SPD-nominated lawyer Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf was supposed to head the Federal Constitutional Court, but a stress test for democracy in the summer of 2025 forced her to forego her candidacy and only prevented a coalition crisis by withdrawing.

CBS News and AFP report that the Pentagon used lie detector tests to investigate the leak of classified munitions information. The highest-ranking US general, Dan Caine, was not tested. Trump is said to have been angry about the reports. The Defense Ministry takes leaks seriously but did not comment on them. The scientific reliability of the tests is controversial.
Baden-Württemberg's Finance Minister Danyal Bayaz (Greens) suggested financial penalties for a possible AfD government in Saxony-Anhalt, but experts emphasize that the state financial equalization and federal funding cannot legally be abused for political discipline because they are set by law and tied to earmarks.

Germany has closed the Russian consulate general in Bonn, depriving Moscow of an important operational location. The former Russian embassy building served the Putin government not only as a diplomatic mission, but also as a base for intelligence operations. The closure underlines the escalating tensions between Germany and Russia in the context of Western sanctions.

The old popular parties SPD and CDU have been losing members and voter support for years, while the AfD, Left and Greens will gain significantly in 2025. Researcher Oskar Niedermayer shows that only 1.6 percent of the population eligible to join belong to a Bundestag party - in the east only 0.9 percent. The connection between the social base and the government is at risk.