” The chancellor announced a new “Germany pact” with a bundle of measures aimed at reducing bureaucracy, speeding up approval processes for new construction and digitising citizens’ access to key government services.
The pact sets out a range of goals to be achieved in consultation with powerful regional governments including swifter online consultation processes for wind farms and transport and data networks, a government document showed.
“Citizens want orientation, courageous compromises,” Scholz said. “That is my demand of us all: the government parties that have argued too loudly in recent months and also the democratic opposition.”
This was also key, he said, to fend off “those who want to draw political profit from decline scenarios and panic-mongering” in reference to the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has surged in polls over the past year to second place, well ahead of Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD).
This “so-called alternative” was in reality a “demolition commando” for our country, he said in unusually harsh terms.
The chancellor rejected the idea of fresh stimulus to boost an economy battling high inflation, financing costs and a drop in exports.
“I set no store by a debt-financed flash-in-the-pan so-called stimulus program that would counteract the European Central Bank’s attempts to fight inflation,” he said.
The government was already investing record sums, he said. The 2024 budget foresaw it investing 58 billion euros from its climate fund in hydrogen, the chip industry, climate-friendly mobility, digital infrastructure and building renovation.
It was also investing 54 billion euros from the regular budget in railways, new bridges, faster internet, charging stations, social housing and a climate neutral economy. Rail operator Deutsche Bahn alone was getting 24 billion euros extra in investment over the coming four years.”
luckily he is famous for is charisma and will definitle reach at least 3 people in the country with his motivational speech
As someone who thinks Germany probably does need some level of additional stimulus, I think he’s also right that a much much more important/impactful priority should be to fix the bureaucracy.
I’m glad to see him take this seriously, but it’s not going to be an easy fight. Even if they do start working hard on this as a real priority today, by the time the next election comes around there might not be any visible progress for voters to see.
Its your job to set that in motion together with your government.
Let’s first get rid of fax machines.
I’ll be disappointed when he removes the patch.
It’s very difficult to take a pirate seriously unless he has a musket.
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” The chancellor announced a new “Germany pact” with a bundle of measures aimed at reducing bureaucracy, speeding up approval processes for new construction and digitising citizens’ access to key government services.
The pact sets out a range of goals to be achieved in consultation with powerful regional governments including swifter online consultation processes for wind farms and transport and data networks, a government document showed.
“Citizens want orientation, courageous compromises,” Scholz said. “That is my demand of us all: the government parties that have argued too loudly in recent months and also the democratic opposition.”
This was also key, he said, to fend off “those who want to draw political profit from decline scenarios and panic-mongering” in reference to the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has surged in polls over the past year to second place, well ahead of Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD).
This “so-called alternative” was in reality a “demolition commando” for our country, he said in unusually harsh terms.
The chancellor rejected the idea of fresh stimulus to boost an economy battling high inflation, financing costs and a drop in exports.
“I set no store by a debt-financed flash-in-the-pan so-called stimulus program that would counteract the European Central Bank’s attempts to fight inflation,” he said.
The government was already investing record sums, he said. The 2024 budget foresaw it investing 58 billion euros from its climate fund in hydrogen, the chip industry, climate-friendly mobility, digital infrastructure and building renovation.
It was also investing 54 billion euros from the regular budget in railways, new bridges, faster internet, charging stations, social housing and a climate neutral economy. Rail operator Deutsche Bahn alone was getting 24 billion euros extra in investment over the coming four years.”
luckily he is famous for is charisma and will definitle reach at least 3 people in the country with his motivational speech
As someone who thinks Germany probably does need some level of additional stimulus, I think he’s also right that a much much more important/impactful priority should be to fix the bureaucracy.
I’m glad to see him take this seriously, but it’s not going to be an easy fight. Even if they do start working hard on this as a real priority today, by the time the next election comes around there might not be any visible progress for voters to see.
Its your job to set that in motion together with your government.
Let’s first get rid of fax machines.
I’ll be disappointed when he removes the patch.
It’s very difficult to take a pirate seriously unless he has a musket.