Deutsche bahn presents new CEO – DW – 09/22/2025

The German federal president Frank-Walter Steinmier has encouraged Pope Leo XIV to play an intermediary role in search of struggles in Ukraine and Middle East, and invited Pontiff to travel to Germany.

“Churches can play a positive role and they must be [maintaining] The harmony of our society, “Steinmier said after a private audience with the head of the Catholic Church in Rome.

He said, “The voice from Rome is as important as usual”. “If the Pope and the Vatican offer their help, we cannot reject it.”

Himalfa, a Protestant, invited Pope Leo to Germany, although there is no concrete plan yet for such a trip. According to Vatican sources, the US -born Pope’s first foreign trip may be for Türkiye before the end of the year.

Pope Francis, the anterior to Leo, never visited Germany, where the Catholic Church has lost about 320,000 members from year to year, which has increased to 19.8 million by 2024.

As the federal president, Steinmier is a massive formal head of Germany, unlike Chancellor Frederick Merz, who is the head of the current government.

Berlin Brandenburg Airport was still struggling with delayed flights and long queues on Monday morning as a weekend continued to fall from a cyber attack.

The cyber attack on the IT service provider Collins Aerospace on Friday night affected the check-in system at airports in London (Heathro), Brussels and Dublin. Apart from Berlin, no other German airports were affected.

The Berlin Airport warned over the weekend that problems would continue in this week, specially given to the Berlin Marathon -Opesenger numbers were given.

Passengers have been urged to check online and drop their belongings on the self-service kiosk. According to the airport spokesperson, only one flight bees were canceled so far, but it was not clear how much time it would take to repair the IT system.

“We have to make 100% ensure that there is no malware in our system before we boot all of them again,” Heer said.

In Brussels, the airlines were asked to cancel about half of their planned flight for Monday on Sunday, although only 60 of the 550 departure and arrival were eventually canceled.

The Dublin Airport only reported the “minimum impact”, even if some processes have been stein -manually excluded. A spokesperson told local broadcaster RTE, “We hope that everything today wants to decide everything.”

Long-distance trains in Germany have set BEE at the time of time of time of time of short-term time of at least 70% by 2029, 80% and more than 90% time in the medium period, Transport Minister Patrick Schnideer (CDU) announced “realistic targets” on Monday.

Currently, only 60% of long distance ice, IC and EC trains are operated by Deutsche Bahn (DB), reaching their destination “time”. , Classified as a delay of less than six minutes.

Through comparison, 81%long distance trains in neighboring Austria arrived on time in 2024, 83%in Czech Republic, 87%in France, 91%in Denmark, 96%in Belgium and 99%in Switzerland , However, France is comparable to Germany only in terms of size. German regional trains already have a rate of 90%.

Speaking at a press conference, on which he presented so officially New Deutush sister’s CEO Evilin Palla (below Lake), Schneider warned that the improvement would not end. However, he said that the funds from a special fund of € 500 billion ($ 588 billion) were recently provided by the German government for the investment of general infrastructure, directly flowing.

The minister said that by 2029 € 10 billion has been kept for digitization. Safety and sanitation at the station is to start in the first quarter of 2026, and customer service and communication is expected to improve the latest by 2027.

As expected, Evelyn Palla is named as the Chief Executive of the German Railway Operator Deutush Bahn (DB).

The 52-year-old Italian citizen from the large-scale German-speaking Alpine region of South Tyrool Suk Paid Richard Lutz, who was rejected last month with increasing credibility and infrastructure issues with the state-railway of Germany.

Earlier, Palla led DB Regio, DB a subsidiary, which oversees many regional operators of the network and similarly in neighboring countries.

Next to Palla’s appointment, which was widely reported over the weekend, the move was welcomed by Germany’s Train Drivers Union (GDL) and the passenger advocacy group “Pro Sister”.

Prof. Train Chairman Ditlef Neau said, “Our list of potential internal candidates was low, but the woman Palla was on her.”

GDL boss Mario Ress “to experience” Palla, “adding:” It is an encouraging indication that someone who has a passenger statistics of time and passenger statistics from outside is taking responsibility. ,

Despite the good issues with time banned and reliability of time, the number of Germans using public transport continued to grow in 2025, a slow rate on boon.

For data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Germans traveled around 5.7 billion on public transport in the first half of this year, growing 1% in the same period in 2024.

Long -distance trains are used by 4% to 71 million trips, although attacks during the same period last year make direct comparison to less reliable.

But when the number is still increasing, the initial bounce after the introduction of nationwide German ticket It appears.

Was introduced in May 2023, German ticket All bust, trams and regional trains (but but long distance ice, IC or ECER trains) are valid for traveling, which is basically for € 49 for € 49, but now cost € 58 through the month.

Currently about 14 million people have A German ticket However, with the price of growing up to € 63 per month in 2026, travel and consumer groups are concerned that more passengers can return to their cars.

German Transport Minister Patrick Schnider (CDU) is ready to unveil his strategy for the future of Germany’s much -promoted rail operator Dutha Sister (DB) , With the presentation of its new Chief Executive.

After rejecting former DB CEO Richard Lutz in August, Schnider said what is the situation “dramatic” in the state-down group.

Hey said that German trains were to be “more timely restricted, more secure and cleaner” and as a company as a company to be “fast, lean, more powerful and affordable more productive”.

According to comprehensive German media reports, the successor of Lutz has already been identified: DB Regional Head Evelyn Palla is ready to become the first female chief executive of the railway.

Good morning! Welcome to DW coverage, which Germany is talking on Monday, 22 September.

Germany’s much awaited railway operator Dutha sister With local media reporting, it is the new Chief Executive Officer, which is ready to unveil that Evalin Palla is ready to become the first female boss of the state-down company.

Later, German President Frank-Walter will be in Vatican for a private audience with Steinmier Pope Leo XIV.