Germany's coalition government has tabled legislation in the Bundestag (Germany's federal parliament) that would grant the country's two main intelligence agencies — the BND (foreign intelligence) and the BfV (domestic intelligence, equivalent to a counterintelligence service) — sweeping new powers, including covert home searches, AI-assisted mass data collection, and limited sabotage operations abroad. The proposals, championed by Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt of the CSU, are partly framed as a response to Russian hybrid threats, following Germany's official attribution of a near-miss drone attack on Leipzig airport to Russian intelligence services. Critics from the Greens and the Left party warn that allowing the BfV to conduct secret break-ins without any obligation to inform those targeted risks creating what one lawmaker called "a new German secret police," while oversight concerns centre on a planned supervisory body dominated by judges and stripped of input from the federal data protection commissioner.