Overview
- A suspected arson attack in Berlin left about 100,000 people without electricity for days, renewing national concern over critical-infrastructure resilience.
- Hesse highlighted a 2023 Security and Resilience Council and a state resilience strategy that coordinate crisis planning across ministries and with infrastructure operators.
- The state reported more than €100 million invested in recent years for civil protection, including large and small mobile generators for every county and regular crisis-staff training.
- Interior Minister Roman Poseck said outages remain possible and cited intensive coordination with energy providers, while the ministry warned that backup-power capability across critical sectors in Germany is still insufficient.
- The proposed Kritis-Dachgesetz is under parliamentary review with its high threshold criticized and the Bundesrat seeking a broader scope, as expert Manuel Atug calls for telecom-power decoupling and, locally, CSU leader Klaus Holetschek asks Unterallgäu for a fresh readiness assessment.