Morning editions opened on rail disruption, with the Berlin-Hannover ICE line closed for 14 months for corridor renovation and Stuttgart announcing it would redesign its station square without waiting for the S-21 opening.
Galeria filed for insolvency a fourth time since 2020, putting 12,000 jobs at risk, followed by reports of a foiled Russian drone and sabotage plot in Leipzig involving 25,000 litres of kerosene and a recount in Berlin-Spandau handing the AfD another direct mandate while shrinking the Abgeordnetenhaus by five seats.
By afternoon attention converged on the black-red coalition, with Steinmeier's phone call, warnings of a new low after the blocked sugar tax and care-finance fight, Q&A explainers on a possible breakup, alongside Trump's claim that G7 states would release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude to ease prices.