Germany’s analogue administration is even annoying the chancellor

Scholz said Germany had some catching up to do on digitalisation and admitted he was ‘really surprised’ when he recently learned that some of the country’s immigration authorities had shelved plans to put more procedures online. — Reuters

BERLIN: Chancellor Olaf Scholz has found himself caught in the sticky web of Germany’s notoriously outdated administrative processes, he told a conference on digitalisation on June 9.

Scholz had to go and apply for a passport and ID card in person because it was not possible online, the chancellor told the re:publica digital conference in Berlin.