US EditionExpert Commission Presents Final Report on State Reform
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It's About More than Fax Machines: Making Germany Operational Again - Celebrity Group Presents Ideas
Germany is too bureaucratic, too slow and still uses fax machines - that's not going to happen with the future. That's what the "initiative for an active state" wants to change, which presents its final report. In this group, however, there are 35 demands. That's the easier part of the exercise.
In Berlin, a group of experts presented their proposals for a modernisation of the state. "There is a lot of consensus and that's why we have to tackle it now," says co-initiator Andreas Voßkuhle, former President of the Federal Constitutional Court.
A non-partisan initiative is pushing for reforms in Germany's state system - from administration to migration to social policy. Now it has submitted its final report to the Federal President.
Provide social benefits via a digital platform, set up national security bodies and respond to citizens with an advance of confidence - some of the demands of the "Active State Initiative".
The catalogue of proposals now presented contains a number of other measures, including the improvement of security and defence capabilities. Much is concerned with digitisation, the way in which companies and people in the country can be given more freedom to develop. Perhaps the most important thing is that a change of mentality must take place.
Berlin - Sounds good and plausible: the state must become more capable of action. An initiative now presented its final report on it. But the implementation is difficult - the coalition is demonstrating this at the moment, comments Alexander Jungkunz.
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