Commentary | Security in the Alpine Region: Bavaria is stepping up its response to cross-border organised crime, strengthening cooperation with Austria and Italy's South Tyrol region. The implications extend far beyond southern Germany. Europe's transport corridors...
Politics
The Inheritance Divide: Why Europe Struggles to Tax Wealth Across Generations
Europe has created a common legal framework for cross-border inheritance, but the taxation of inherited wealth remains a national affair. While some countries impose substantial taxes on large estates, others have abolished inheritance duties altogether. Germany now...
Germany’s Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Expands Police Powers for Domestic Violence and Drone Threats
Electronic monitoring of high-risk domestic violence offenders, digital restraining orders and new powers to detect and counter hostile drones: the German state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is modernising its security legislation in response to a changing threat...
Germany’s Export Model Is Losing Momentum
German exports fell again in August. For the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, DIHK, the decline is more than a monthly fluctuation. Trade tensions, weak industrial activity and structural disadvantages at home are putting pressure on an economic model that has...
Commentary: Cash means freedom – and resilience
The German Government plans to ensure that, as a general rule, both cash and at least one digital payment option are offered for everyday payments. The BDGW is also calling for a mandatory requirement to accept cash and warns against providing greater legal protection...
Civil protection in a new era: resilience becomes a shared responsibility
Photo: Civil protection as a shared responsibility: Hesse’s Minister for the Interior, Roman Poseck, together with Donata Freifrau Schenck zu Schweinsberg, former Vice-President of the German Red Cross and President of the Fulda District Association of the German Red...
Thinking Ahead on Security: Detect Earlier, Act Faster
Security Autumn 2026 showcases an industry in transition. Cameras are becoming smarter, sensors more sensitive, access rights more digital and control centres more powerful. Yet perhaps the most important development is not taking place within individual products. It...
Comment: Berlin needs modern policing — but not a digital blank cheque
The German Police Union in Berlin, the DPolG, is right on one fundamental point: a police force expected to confront organised crime, terrorism, cybercrime and increasingly mobile criminal networks cannot be forced to rely on the technological capabilities of a...
Bavaria’s police expansion offers a lesson in long-term security management
Bavaria is adding hundreds of officers at a time when many European police forces are struggling with retirements, recruitment gaps and a widening catalogue of threats. The more interesting story, however, is not the size of the intake but the way the Free State is...
Cross-border security cooperation offers lessons for Europe
The German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate are expanding cooperation between police, emergency services, civil protection authorities, intelligence agencies and cybersecurity bodies. While many of the individual projects are rooted in Germany’s federal...
