This chapter provides an overview of some key developments and trends in German intelligence governance and oversight. It focuses primarily on the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany's foreign intelligence service. Unified Germany made good progress towards its consolidation by the end of the 1990s. The steady power shift from Bonn to Berlin coincided with a growing awareness and then later more confidence that Germany needed to engage more actively in European and global security politics. The activity of the intelligence services in the last decade of the twentieth century was mainly shaped by two factors: the resurgent (re-)emerging threat of international terrorism and advances in digitalisation. German policy makers seemed less inhibited about bringing German intelligence into the twenty-first century and embracing the enormous potential of digitalisation and big-data analysis. The terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels caused anxiety and stirred a lively public discussion on how to best ensure national security in Germany.