Overview
- Germany's interior minister outlined a strategy to expand intelligence staffing and grant faster access to digital traces to track suspected plotters.
- He also proposed a KRITIS umbrella law that would impose binding protection concepts, emergency planning and higher IT‑security standards on operators of energy, water and telecom systems.
- The announcement follows a Berlin outage linked to sabotage that initially cut power to about 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses, with supply restored by midweek.
- Authorities have not identified suspects, while coverage notes the left‑wing 'Vulkangruppe' has been cited in past incidents without concrete leads.
- Dobrindt said security is the top priority without scaling back efforts against right‑wing extremism, as municipal leaders separately urged a national mobile power reserve for major blackouts.