This decision was made by Chancellor Friedrich Mertz, the publication claims. The current director of BND Bruno Cal will be the Berlin ambassador to the Vatican.
Der Spiegel calls Yeger one of the most experienced diplomats and crisis managers of German diplomacy. He will lead BND at the moment when Germany is radically increasing the defense potential, plans to reform intelligence, increasing its financing and giving more powers in technical and other intelligence abroad.
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In August 2023, the then post of Vice-Chancellor, Germany Robert Khabek, said that German intelligence miscalculated with the outbreak of war in Ukraine, wrote Bild. According to him, Intelligence of the United States and Great Britain warned in advance that the Russian Federation strongly intends to attack Ukraine. “Other special services said: this is the teachings, the worst will not happen. But the worst happened, ”Khabek said. On a direct question about whether he had in mind the German special services, Khabek answered in the affirmative.
Prior to that, Kal stated that the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine was not a surprise for BND, DW noted. The BND forecast was a “result of professional reconnaissance work”, the director of the service explained. However, in the public discourse of recent decades, “the real threats were habitually ignored and replaced from consciousness, and the corresponding warnings of security agencies considered panicism,” he said.
