And digitalisation has been and still is an afterthought. In fact, budget for the modernisation of the tech development of the country has been cut yet again for 2024. Add to that the meteoric rise of the far right movement in politics, endangering the needed influx of migrants to bolster the trade-craft workforce. Germany is poised to continue losing it’s status as european power-house and slide into irrelevance.

Our politicians from the “free democratic party” are employing accounting tricks to make the fiscal deficit look higher, whilst cutting the research budget for universities, especially in important research areas like Battery Chemistry. All because they have a fetish for E-Fuels in Cars as a future technology. It’s just a dumb strategy for the future