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‼️🇩🇪🇷🇺 BIG | Germany is preparing a major expansion of its domestic intelligence capabilities, potentially giving the country’s security services unprecedented powers to actively disrupt threats rather than simply monitor them.

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BIG | Germany is preparing a major expansion of its domestic intelligence capabilities, potentially giving the country’s security services unprecedented powers to actively disrupt threats rather than simply monitor them.

According to BILD, Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt plans to significantly broaden the authority of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz), Germany’s domestic intelligence agency.

Under the proposed reforms, the agency would no longer be limited primarily to intelligence gathering, surveillance and threat assessment. Instead, it would gain the ability to conduct active operations against extremist networks and hostile foreign actors.

The expanded powers would include disrupting extremist and foreign operations, interfering with targeted data flows, deploying spyware for digital surveillance and infiltration, and even conducting offensive operations against cyber infrastructure located abroad.

The reform would mark a significant shift in Germany’s security doctrine, moving the Verfassungsschutz from a largely intelligence-focused organization toward a more proactive service capable of directly disrupting hostile operations.

The move comes as Germany faces an increasingly complex security environment involving Russian espionage and sabotage networks, cyberattacks and broader hybrid threats. Berlin appears determined to give its intelligence services substantially greater freedom to strike back rather than simply document hostile activity.

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