Coalition negotiations: Digital Ministry disappeared

The working group of Union representatives and Social Democrats for the coalition negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD has completed its work. Now the proposals and plans still have to be coordinated with the proposals of the other working groups and open points discussed by the party and parliamentary group leaders. However, one significant change has already emerged: There is no longer any talk of an independent digital ministry in the results. This is shown by a supposedly final version of the working group paper, which is available to heise online.

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At the beginning, it emphasizes the role that digital policy would play as power politics, economic policy and social policy. For example, it states, “We want a digitally sovereign Germany”, for which measures such as the “German Administration Cloud” (DVC), which is to be implemented based on sovereign standards, are subsequently listed. The state should become an anchor customer for the digital economy, and the modernization of registers and the EUDI wallet should play a central role. To promote all of this and other measures, the federal government's IT budget should be centralized and used strategically.

However, the idea that there should be an independent digital ministry with an official substructure and a centralized digital budget is no longer mentioned in the entire text – Whether this means the end of these plans is still unclear at the moment. This is because the decision on a ministry is not made in the working groups.

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