Deutschland-Stack
A sovereign, interoperable and EU-compatible IT platform for federal, state and municipal government. Participation process and consultation launched 9 October 2025.
T.02 / DIGITALISATION
Digital state, digital sovereignty
Germany's first digital ministry combines two agendas: making public services digital, and reducing Europe's dependence on technologies controlled elsewhere.
Building blocks
Six components of the digital agenda
Dates refer to cabinet decisions or official launches.
d-you
Germany's version of the EU digital identity wallet: voluntary, free, launching 2 January 2027, with around 40 launch partners. Digital Identities Act adopted by cabinet in May 2026.
Once only
Citizens should submit data to authorities only once. Cabinet laid the basis in May 2025; the federal–state NOOTS treaty provides the technical framework.
Digital administration
Digital change of address (available to 55 million citizens by November 2025), digital vehicle registration documents and a combined digital application for founding a business (August 2026).
Data use
Data Act implementation law adopted by cabinet in October 2025; a new strategic framework for open data in July 2026; work on connecting data spaces.
AI in administration
Federal AI marketplace “MaKI” (January 2026), AI pilots in municipalities and a contract for a sovereign AI cloud (May 2026).
Digital sovereignty
The Berlin summit, November 2025
Co-chaired by Chancellor Merz and President Macron, with Wildberger giving the opening speech in English.
900+
Participants from 27 EU member states
Élysée
12bn € +
Private investment pledges announced
Élysée
Verified fact
The summit at the EUREF-Campus in Berlin produced a Franco-German taskforce on digital sovereignty and commitments in seven areas, including simplification of EU digital rules — with a call to postpone the AI Act's high-risk provisions by 12 months — fair cloud markets, data sovereignty, digital public infrastructure and frontier AI. France, Germany, Mistral AI and SAP announced a sovereign AI for public administration.
Political position“Today, Germany, France and our European partners are making one thing unmistakably clear: we will shape Europe's digital future — together.”
He defines sovereignty as partnership rather than isolation: “Digital sovereignty doesn't mean isolation. It means trust in strong partnerships — and the ability to shape things ourselves” (4 November 2025, translated).
Digital identity
d-you in his words
“Our digital identity belongs to the people — not the state, not the platforms, not the companies.”
Analysis“Opening an account, identifying yourself to an authority: in future this will be done securely with a smartphone, without paper copies, without an extra trip.”
The wallet is the most consumer-visible project of his term and will be a test of adoption: it is voluntary, and similar digital ID offers in Germany — such as the online function of the identity card — have historically seen limited use. The launch date of 2 January 2027 lies after the publication date of this archive.
Sources
- BMDS, Deutschland-Stack: bmds.bund.de
- BMDS, d-you: bmds.bund.de
- BMDS, d-you Bundestag speech: bmds.bund.de
- Élysée, summit outcomes: elysee.fr
- BMDS, summit opening speech: bmds.bund.de
- BMDS, Industrial AI Cloud: bmds.bund.de