Germany Rewrites the Rules for its Spies Florian Flade

Secrets & Spies

Jul 11, 202600:57:12News & Politics

For most of its history, Germany's foreign intelligence service was built to watch, not to act — a constraint rooted in the country's experience of the Gestapo and the Stasi. A sweeping draft law would change that, letti...

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