Country Report: Assessment of Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) in the 2025 German Federal Election

Published: 10 July 2025

This country election report was developed through the project FIMI Defenders for Election Integrity. The project consortium brings together the expertise from 10 organisations to develop a multistakeholder foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) framework to effectively monitor, respond to and counter FIMI threats before and during elections, while simultaneously strengthening FIMI defender communities and democratic institutions. This monitoring and response also involved engaging and coordinating with 16 in-country partners from across German civil society and academia.

Over the course of these monitoring efforts, the consortium produced a series of incident alerts to be circulated to relevant election stakeholders in real-time. These incident alerts detail key information about FIMI incidents and their impact in the country of focus and provide a set of recommendations for response. Where insights derived from these incident alerts are mentioned throughout this report, they are signposted with an alpha-numeric code beginning with ‘IA’.