Merz announces first German Cabinet choices

https://www.politico.eu/article/merz-fills-new-german-cabinet-with-conservative-loyalists/

Germany’s chancellor in waiting hands key ministries to CDU veterans and business figures, setting the tone for a more conservative, security-focused government.

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snuggledick@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y

Alexander Dobrindt

bob_lemon@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y

Cultural and media affairs will be steered by Wolfram Weimer, a well-known journalist and publisher

Meme of Axel Springer awarding a medal to Axel Springer

(The guy used to be editor in chief of Welt, which belongs to the same infamous Axel Springer publishing house as Politico)

Just so everyone knows what kind of guy this is, I'll just go and translate a direct quote of his from 2018, that is found on his German Wikipedia article:

The term "climate denier" has been used by red-green (note: this refers to Social Democrats and the Green party) people for years to stigmatize people that dare to doubt the theory of man-made climate change in its claim to be absolute. Thee term "climate denier" is meant to kill open discussion because it is reminiscent of "Holocaust denier".

cocolowlander@feddit.nl · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Merz has also created a new Ministry for Digitalization, choosing physicist and tech executive Karsten Wildberger to push overdue digital reforms in government.

Germany needs to adopt an Euro Stack for digital sovereignty.

teutotina@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y

I think the "Ministry for Digitalization" is more about replacing fax machines and getting fiber.

vollkorntomate@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 1y

5 out of the 7 CDU cabinet members are lawyers.