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\n Published on 11\/06\/2025 – 15:46 GMT+2\u2022Updated
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Martin J\u00e4ger, Germany’s ambassador to Ukraine, is set to become the new head of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), German media reported on Wednesday, citing government sources.<\/p>\n
J\u00e4ger will replace Bruno Kahl as Germany’s spy chief, with Kahl set to take up the ambassadorship to the Vatican. <\/p>\n
The German government has yet to officially confirm the change.<\/p>\n
J\u00e4ger is considered an experienced crisis diplomat due to his role as German ambassador to Ukraine, a post he has filled since 2023, the year after Russia’s full-scale invasion of the country.<\/p>\n
He previously served as ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan. <\/p>\n
In Germany, J\u00e4ger, a member of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, worked as a spokesperson for the finance ministry, then headed by Wolfgang Sch\u00e4uble. <\/p>\n
He also worked as state secretary in the Ministry of the Interior.<\/p>\n
The Federal Intelligence Service is subordinate to the chancellery and therefore under Friedrich Merz, who is authorised to appoint the president.<\/p>\n
The BND is tasked with collecting and evaluating information of foreign and security policy significance and supplying the federal government with reports and analyses. <\/p>\n
The BND is one of the few government agencies authorised to use intelligence services such as espionage.<\/p>\n
According to German outlets, the German government is planning a fundamental reorganisation of the intelligence service and wants to provide the BND with more funding. <\/p>\n
The BND is also to be given more flexibility in terms of spying abroad and technical reconnaissance, according to the domestic press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Euronews Published on 11\/06\/2025 – 15:46 GMT+2\u2022Updated 16:12 ADVERTISEMENT Martin J\u00e4ger, Germany’s ambassador to Ukraine, is set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[71495,2000,299,1824,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-177272","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-ambassador","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114668097333193202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}