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Olaf Scholz sets intelligence overhaul in motion

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. © Omer Messinger/dpa/picture-alliance/Newscom/MaxPPP

The new German government plans to completely reform the executive's control of intelligence, but at the same time it is also accompanying the ongoing restructuring of the foreign intelligence service, the BND. [...] (508 words)

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