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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
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Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, examines whether the country can achieve its goals—and what stands in its way

Germany plans to reform its foreign intelligence service, the BND, granting it new powers including offensive cyber operations…

Defence spending may kickstart economic recovery, but it will take a while

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Its endless bureaucratic rules trap would-be reformers

Also on the daily podcast: German’s new defence strategy and responses to “Passport bros”