Overview
- She has proposed a specialized Bundestagpolizeigesetz to authorize the Bundestag police to receive classified threat assessments from the Verfassungsschutz.
- Lawmakers from all parliamentary factions are negotiating the bill’s details to overcome obstacles that sank the measure last term.
- Klöckner called for accelerated cyber defenses upgrades after a series of state-linked hacking attempts targeting the Bundestag since 2015.
- Officials are reviewing visitor screening protocols to tighten reliability checks for the two million annual guests.
- The president argues that these security reforms are vital to protecting the parliament’s symbolic role and ensuring democratic resilience against foreign threats.