Trains often run late, roads and bridges are in poor condition, car sales are in recession, and the public administration is entangled in bureaucracy and suffers from a lack of digitalization.
Add to this a series of public planning failures – from the delayed central train station in Stuttgart to Berlin’s international airport – and it seems as if progress has hit a wall.
It seems to many that the country is in a permanent state of delay and disrepair.
Not anti-national, like therapy
Deleland is hosted by DW Business journalists Andreas Becker and Nicolas Martin.
Refresh their award-winning investigative podcast cannabis cowboyThe pair now turn their attention to a domestic challenge: Germany’s race to keep up in a rapidly changing world.
Each of the five episodes is a journey through procrastination – as well as a search for solutions.
The hosts travel from Switzerland to India, France to Denmark to explore what lessons these successes can hold for Germany.
delleland This isn’t just a business podcast. This is psycho-geography: a map of the German psyche, its post-1945 identity, its sense of superiority and fear of change. In short, a national therapy session.
Edited by: Uwe Hessler
The podcast is available on dw.comapple podcastsspotifyand all major podcast platforms,
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