Overview

• An Interior Ministry spokesman confirmed talks on changing aviation security law, with armed action envisioned only if lives or critical infrastructure face imminent danger and other measures fail, transferring crisis decisions to the Defence Ministry.
• Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt outlined a broader package that includes a national counter‑UAS competence center, closer federal–state coordination and police assistance by the Bundeswehr, with a draft law targeted for presentation this autumn.
• The plan emphasizes layered technical defenses such as detection and classification, jamming and takeover systems, and possible tougher penalties for illegal intrusions at airports.
• EU defence officials led by Andrius Kubilius agreed to start implementing an integrated eastern counter‑drone network, billed as a ‘dronewall’ funded by EU instruments and tentatively scoped to be deployable within a year.
• Fresh incidents kept pressure high, with Danish airports and the Karup air base disrupted by drone sightings and new reports in northern Germany, as NATO bolstered Baltic Sentry and Poland scrambled jets and briefly restricted airspace during overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine.