As a person in the EU I would absolutely love to see changes in Germany and EU in general, but I have lost all faith in Germany's ability to fight bureaucracy.

That news just confirms EU is not a country-like and any federation is not ready.

Funny that outsiders like US and Russia and probably others behave as it is one country :) It is kind of some "body" but not a well functioning one: fusion ? Unser! Spy satelites ? Notre!

But the real test will be follow-through. Big promises like "world's first fusion reactor" and wooing global talent sound great, but without a clear budget or streamlined bureaucracy, it risks becoming just another shiny headline

The more I read about this, the more it feels like a VW bailout. If you want innovation, make it easier to start up and shut down research companies, you don't need a new ministry to hand out taxpayer money to companies.

> A new ministry for research, technology, and aerospace will be formed, and the education portfolio will be taken over by the current ministry for family, seniors, women, and youth.

So I guess Germany is one of those countries which reorganize their government on a brainstorming board by just throwing up concepts. And then it takes years for all the bureaucracy to move around and get back to work.

> Germany needs a new alignment of defense policy and research policy, but “we do not yet know how to do this,”

I learned in middle school that you were once really good at it. There is also a consensus it got quickly out of control and destroyed Europe.

All of this sound more like an Onion or Babylon Bee piece...

> “Our goal is that the world’s first fusion reactor should be realized in Germany,”

This will never happen. At some point they will notice that fusion is something with "nuclear" and "atoms" and they will immediately jump to "scary", "dangerous" and "verboten".

No fax ? :P

> also plans to woo scientists from abroad

but also god forbid you arrive to Germany with <C1 German. ABH office is waiting with guns fully loaded

What's with the mis-matched hyphens/dashes?