Overview
- Berlin and Brandenburg signed a Digitalfunk cooperation to enable mutual assistance, joint emergency exercises and coordinated procurements.
- Both premiers backed joint use of Berlin’s Lichtenrade detention facility and a shared exit/return center at BER, with a formal agreement still pending and a signing targeted by early 2026.
- Brandenburg plans state transitional facilities and will convert part of the Wünsdorf reception center into an exit facility with several hundred places.
- The cabinets urged the Federal Transport Ministry to allow more intercontinental flights and add ICE connections to BER, while also pressing to secure ILA financing at the airport beyond 2030.
- The governments set a goal to adopt a joint innovation strategy in the first half of 2026 to boost high‑quality start‑ups, and Wegner called for faster housing construction including at Tempelhofer Feld.