{
  "id": 19327899,
  "title": "Bundestag: Verfassungsschutz soll Kooperation mit Land begrenzen können",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/bundestag-verfassungsschutz-soll-kooperation-mit-land-begrenzen-konnen",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-11-10T12:03:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/bundestag-verfassungsschutz-soll-kooperation-mit-land-begrenzen-koennen/100268797.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "In the Bundestag, the Verfassungsschutz may soon have the power to limit cooperation with individual states. This possibility emerges from an amendment proposal to the planned reform of the intelligence services law. The amendment, which is to be discussed by the Bundestag's Interior Committee on Wednesday, states: \"If there is actual evidence that in the cooperation, a crucial security interest of the Federal Government or a state is significantly impaired, the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection, if the majority of the state constitutional protection authorities agree, may bindingly define adjustments to the cooperation duty, including the availability of the intelligence information system for the constitutional protection authorities.\" In case of imminent danger, the Federal Office for Constitutional Protection may also unilaterally bindingly define such adjustments. IMK Chairman cites AfD contacts in Russia Following the AfD's electoral victory in Saxony-Anhalt, Hamburg's Interior Senator Andy Grote (SPD) called on his colleagues in the federal government and the states to protect constitutional protection authorities from extremist influence. In Saxony-Anhalt, a clearly right-extreme party is on the verge of forming the government. \"State authority and thus control over security authorities in the hands of a constitutionally hostile party with close contacts to Russia is a serious security risk,\" said the chairman of the Interior Ministers' Conference of the Federal States and the Federal Government (IMK). The proposed change, to be decided by the Bundestag after the Interior Committee's discussion, is justified by potential serious secret protection risks. These could arise \"if institutional secret protection in a state constitutional protection office was not comprehensively guaranteed.\" This would jeopardize the functionality of the entire Verfassungsschutzverbund. Both the federal security authorities and the IMK had emphasized in recent months that, even with a limitation of cooperation with the constitutional protection of a state, warnings of concrete dangers, such as preparations for a potential Islamist terrorist attack, would still be shared.",
  "summary": "Mit der AfD könnte in Sachsen-Anhalt eine Partei an die Regierung kommen, die der Verfassungsschutz im Blick hat. Was wird dann aus der Zusammenarbeit im Sicherheitsbereich?",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}