The day was dominated by Volkswagen's supervisory board approving a contentious restructuring plan, with Bild, Tagesspiegel, Sueddeutsche, Spiegel, Stuttgarter Zeitung, FAZ, and Zeit all leading with the story in the evening. The plan entails cutting 50,000 additional jobs and potential plant closures, including Neckarsulm. Earlier in the day, the suspected arson attack on a Munich arms company and the Saxony-Anhalt election aftermath were prominent, with AfD's potential rise and CDU's strategy dominating commentary. The Russia-Germany cultural conflict continued, with Moscow closing Goethe-Institutes in response to Berlin's closure of the Russisches Haus. The Alphaville festival controversy also featured, with the band first disinvited and then reinvited, but ultimately declining to perform.