Overnight papers stayed with Washington, reporting House Republicans had blocked the impeachment motion against Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth over Iran and Caribbean strikes, which Trump called an acquittal.
Attention then shifted to the Bundeswehr, where Defence Minister Pistorius presented a dark-field study finding more than 70 percent of servicewomen had experienced sexual harassment, concentrated among young lower ranks and in the navy, described across titles as systemic.
By midday editors converged on Brandenburg, reporting the 22-year-old suspect in the murder of 13-year-old Lisa T. had died in hospital, leaving investigators to clarify only the girl's death.
Afternoon coverage turned to the Council of Economic Experts, which warned of a 215-billion-euro gap despite better growth and attacked black-red borrowing while floating tax rises. The government then postponed the sugar levy to 2028, scrapped the plastic levy and took general power-tax relief off the table for 2027 without social cuts.