Overnight editors led with Washington and Copenhagen announcing a Greenland agreement giving the US permanent control over the island's security, which papers presented as Trump defusing a crisis he created and Merz declaring the old friendship over. By morning attention returned to the eve of Sunday's votes in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, framed as a verdict on Chancellor Merz. Coverage weighed whether CDU candidate Evers could rescue him, dismissed talk of replacing him with Dobrindt as illusion, and warned he could not count on SPD solidarity.
Midday front pages were interrupted by the opening of the 191st Oktoberfest, with new mayor Krause's first O'zapft is, before Saturday football took over.
Evening papers circled back to the campaign, with the AfD's bid for first place in Schwerin and a report of Kremlin backing for the AfD.