Morning coverage focused on China's DeepSeek AI platform challenging US tech dominance, with Trump characterizing it as a "wake-up call" amid market turbulence. The story evolved into broader coverage of US-China AI competition.
The CDU-AfD firewall debate intensified as SPD regions expressed alarm over Merz's five-point migration plan. By afternoon, Berlin's CDU leader Wegner broke his silence on the issue while the AfD announced support for CDU migration proposals despite anti-AfD provisions. Legal experts questioned the constitutionality of Merz's proposals.
Evening news shifted to security concerns, with Scholz warning about Putin's "shadow fleet" operations in the Baltic Sea and Trump's plans for an American Iron Dome system. Serbian PM Vučević's resignation following corruption protests received parallel coverage, while reports emerged of EU strategies to counter Trump's Greenland ambitions.