Overview
- Chancellor Friedrich Merz joined Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s cabinet session in Schwerin and toured Ypsomed’s expanding plant, where the company plans to invest over €500 million and target about 1,000 jobs by 2030.
- Host premier Manuela Schwesig pressed for lower electricity prices, deployment of federal special-fund money and stronger port financing, with local concerns also raised over cost increases for the Peene bridge.
- The SPD leadership approved an industry program backing a subsidised electricity price for manufacturers from 1 January 2026, with scope, costs and EU sign‑off still unresolved.
- Remarks by Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul after a Syria visit and by Merz on the urban “cityscape” kept deportation policy and political rhetoric under scrutiny, a divide reflected in a televised debate.
- Berlin and Brandenburg signed a Digitalfunk cooperation pact and voiced support for shared use of removal facilities in Lichtenrade and at BER without a concrete deal, while Iris Stalzer was sworn in as Herdecke’s mayor weeks after a life‑threatening knife attack, with a warrant issued for her 17‑year‑old adoptive daughter.