Overview
- Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul set out the biggest reorganization of the ministry in decades to move toward security-, interest- and economy-led diplomacy.
- A new security policy department will consolidate work on NATO, the EU, the OSCE, cyber diplomacy and arms control and export policy, alongside a large unit for EU policy and geo‑economics.
- Country responsibilities will be restructured into four regional divisions, including a new Americas department spanning Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and a strengthened Europe division covering relations from Russia to the United Kingdom.
- The Stabilization department will be dissolved, with country desks gaining authority to decide on humanitarian and stabilization funding.
- About 570 posts are slated to be reduced by 2029 largely at headquarters through natural turnover, embassies will be spared and selected posts may be reinforced, and a follow-on digital modernization phase will target AI and IT upgrades after the structural changes.