Bavaria remains one of Germany’s safest federal states. According to the 2025 Police Crime Statistics, the crime rate in the Free State – apart from the Covid-19 year of 2021 – is at its lowest level since 1978. Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann presented figures in...
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NRW: Police crime statistics for 2025
Crime is falling, with less violence and theft, but more sexual offences North Rhine-Westphalia has become slightly safer overall. This is according to the police crime statistics for 2025, which were presented by Minister of the Interior Herbert Reul on Monday, 2...
Bitkom: Legal Opinion: Electricity Price Relief Must Also Apply to Data Centres
Relief for energy-intensive digital infrastructure is necessary to prevent relocation abroad Wintergerst: “Data centres are the backbone of industry and the economy” Data centres must be included in electricity price relief schemes. This is the conclusion of a legal...
Europe’s Blind Spot: Data Centres Are Critical Infrastructure – and Policymakers Are Failing to Act
Europe speaks confidently about digital sovereignty, AI leadership and industrial competitiveness. Yet it continues to overlook the very foundation of all three: data centres. A recent legal opinion commissioned by the association Bitkom in Germany makes a clear...
Ambitious drone strategy: Baden-Württemberg focuses on sovereignty and system expertise
With the first drone innovation conference in Stuttgart, Thomas Strobl has sent a signal in terms of security policy that goes far beyond a mere technology initiative. Baden-Württemberg wants to develop a police drone that is not only technically capable, but above...
Commentary: Security Is More Than Statistics — and More Than Policing
What Baden-Württemberg’s 2025 Crime Statistics really tell us At first glance, Baden-Württemberg’s 2025 Police Crime Statistics read like a success story. Overall crime is declining, clearance rates remain above 60 percent, and violence in public spaces is falling....
Ending Germany’s Mini-Jobs: A Political Reform with Economic Side Effects
Debate over labour-market reform raises questions about income security, flexibility and employment risks Germany’s long-standing “mini-job” model is once again under political scrutiny. Economists are warning that a rapid abolition of this special form of employment...
Comment: Mobile phone tracking for persons required to leave the country – promises of efficiency with unanswered questions
At first glance, the demand for mobile phone tracking and surveillance of persons required to leave the country who have gone into hiding seems pragmatic: if persons cannot be located, the police should use digital means to find them more quickly. Less effort, fewer...
Munich Security Conference – Security architecture under stress
The 62nd edition of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) once again demonstrated the security policy and operational significance of the meeting for Germany and its partners. Between February 13 and 15, 2026, global crisis dynamics, high-level diplomacy, and a...
Germany: More video surveillance in public spaces
Baden-Württemberg expands municipal scope for action The state parliament of Baden-Württemberg has passed an amendment to the state data protection law that makes it much easier for municipalities to use video surveillance in public spaces. The aim of the amendment is...
