A recent legal opinion by Christian Waldhoff of Humboldt University in Berlin analyses the role of cash within the tension between digitalisation, regulation and the protection of fundamental rights. The study concludes that restrictions on the use of cash do not...

Context: What the Cyber Resilience Act actually changes in the EU The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) establishes, for the first time, a uniform EU-wide framework that sets out mandatory cybersecurity requirements for hardware and software (‘products with digital...

The German Association for IT Security (TeleTrusT) has commented on the draft bill prepared by the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland Affairs for national implementing legislation for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and sees a clear need for improvements....

Whilst the West is fixated on oil prices, it overlooks a far more serious reality: the extreme vulnerability of the drinking water supply in the Gulf region. Over 100 million people in the GCC rely on desalination plants – in countries such as Kuwait, this figure...

UAV DACH takes a critical view of the Federal Environment Agency’s ‘drone study’ A study recently published by the Federal Environment Agency analyses the ‘opportunities and risks of unmanned aviation for people and the environment’. As the trade association for the...

The German Bundestag is on the verge of passing the national implementing legislation for the European Data Act. This is intended to flesh out the regulatory framework for the application of the EU regulation in Germany. The underlying EU Data Act has been in force...

Why the threat to drinking water supplies in the Middle East marks a turning point in international law There are forms of infrastructure whose destruction not only has military consequences but also undermines the very foundations of human existence. The drinking...

One operator. 23 countries. What sounds like a headline from a cyber-thriller is actually the result of Operation Alice — one of the largest global cybercrime crackdowns in recent years. > Over nearly five years, investigators uncovered a single individual running...

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...

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...