Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
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Re: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
#2And it will probably be headed by one of the most incompetent and corrupt politicians they were able to find. Disgusting.
Re: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
#3And it will probably be headed by one of the most incompetent and corrupt politicians they were able to find. Disgusting.
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Re: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
#4Nothing surprising about Germany excelling at its strongest fields: creating ministries.
Accretive policy is strong there and in their Anglo-Saxon descendants.
Re: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
#5And it will probably be headed by one of the most incompetent and corrupt politicians they were able to find. Disgusting.
Evidence? Citations? Suggested reading?
> The agreement stipulates that the CSU will be in charge of the “super–high-tech ministry,” as party leader Markus Söder called it in a press conference this week. The CSU has not proposed a minister yet, but it’s widely expected that Dorothee Bär, who was in charge of “digital infrastructure” in previous governments under former Chancellor Angela Merkel, will get the nod.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothee_B%C3%A4r
Sounds like her only non-political experience is working as a journalist.
It's arguable that the "corrupt" part was scrubbed off Wikipedia. But her credentials to lead a research / technology / aerospace ministry certainly sound underwhelming.
Re: Germany creates 'super–high-tech ministry' for research, technology, aerospace
#6And it will probably be headed by one of the most incompetent and corrupt politicians they were able to find. Disgusting.
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I don't think grandparent's characterization matches. Typical career oriented "conservative" politician.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> The agreement stipulates that the CSU will be in charge of the “super–high-tech ministry,” as party leader Markus Söder called it in a press conference this week. The CSU has not proposed a minister yet, but it’s widely expected that Dorothee Bär, who was in charge of “digital infrastructure” in previous governments under former Chancellor Angela Merkel, will get the nod. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothee_B%C3…
>who was in charge of “digital infrastructure” in previous governments
germany's digital infrastructure is a global laughing stock, this doesn't bode well.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
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> The agreement stipulates that the CSU will be in charge of the “super–high-tech ministry,” as party leader Markus Söder called it in a press conference this week. The CSU has not proposed a minister yet, but it’s widely expected that Dorothee Bär, who was in charge of “digital infrastructure” in previous governments under former Chancellor Angela Merkel, will get the nod. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothee_B%C3…
German only, sorry. Both are reputable news outlets (though the Spiegel has gone down quite a bit in recent years IMHO).
https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2013-04/baer-csu-geh... https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/csu-politikerin-d...
She hired her future husband as an employee until immediately before their wedding. This position was paid by the federal German parliament, i.e. the taxpayer. It's illegal to hire a relative in such a position.
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#9Nothing surprising about Germany excelling at its strongest fields: creating ministries. Accretive policy is strong there and in their Anglo-Saxon descendants.
Excelling at creating paperwork... except now digitally. AUTOSAR is may favorite German software innovation. /s
That's the curse in Europe. Every European country has it's own ministry of digital innovation who's role is the grift of allocating taxpayer money to the right politically connected pockets while pretending to do innovation. Case in point, German fiber optic infrastructure is still lightyears behind Romania despite much higher costs. Means, somebody in Germany is making good money form that, even if there's nothing to show for.
Meanwhile the actuality innovative companies in Europe get real VC money from the US, then get incorporated in the US and become American companies, then EU has the audacity to complain about lacking tech sovereignty.
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#10Many German companies want „Digitalisierung“, workflow automation, process improvements, they want to use AI, LLMs, but when it comes to implementing all of that, they are drowning in bureaucracy.
What Germans can do is create layers of bureaucracy.