Germany: FIMI Federal Election Country Report

The Germany Federal Election Country Report is the most methodologically sophisticated of the FDEI country reports, distinguished by its longitudinal dimension: rather than treating the 2025 federal election in isolation, the report analyses FIMI across three election cycles — 2017, 2021, and 2025 — using 98 identified FIMI incidents processed through the OpenCTI threat intelligence platform. This longitudinal approach reveals how Russian FIMI operations against Germany have evolved in sophistication and how Germany's counter-FIMI capacity has developed in response.

The report's use of OpenCTI as the analytical backbone is itself noteworthy: it applies a structured threat intelligence methodology borrowed from cybersecurity to FIMI incident processing, enabling systematic comparison across incidents and election cycles. The finding that Russia remains the dominant threat actor across all three cycles, combined with documented escalation in the use of AI tools in the 2025 cycle, has direct implications for election security planning.