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Germany should reach NATO's 2% of GDP defence spending target and sustain it as a floor, not a ceiling.

Germany's post-WWII pacifist strategic culture has been a liability for European security that the Zeitenwende must genuinely change.

Germany should invest substantially more in preventive health programmes targeting obesity, smoking, and alcohol-related disease.

Mental health waiting times in Germany are unacceptably long and constitute a public health crisis.

Germany's hospital system has too many small, underfunded hospitals and needs consolidation to improve quality and efficiency.

Higher earners should not be able to opt out of the statutory health insurance system.

Care workers in Germany are systematically underpaid and understaffed — this constitutes a policy failure requiring urgent remedy.

Long-term care insurance (Pflegeversicherung) contributions are substantially too low and must rise to meet future demographic demand.

Germany should merge its statutory (GKV) and private (PKV) health insurance systems into a single solidarity-based system.

Germany should develop active industrial policy to support the Mittelstand's transition to employee ownership and worker co-determination models.

Eastern Germany still faces structural economic disadvantages that require sustained, targeted federal support.

Federal and state industrial subsidies to the car sector have delayed necessary transformation into electric vehicles and clean technology.

Germany's economic model is dangerously over-dependent on automotive exports and requires active diversification.

The Mindestlohn (minimum wage) should rise to €15 per hour and be indexed to living costs.

Germany's Kurzarbeit scheme should be maintained as a permanent feature of the labour market rather than only an emergency measure.

The Schuldenbremse (constitutional debt brake) should be reformed to allow public investment in infrastructure and the green transition.

Germany should strengthen anti-monopoly measures against US and Chinese digital platforms that dominate German digital markets.

Public services in Germany are unacceptably analogue — digital government must become a national strategic priority.

Germany should lead in developing European sovereign cloud infrastructure independent of US hyperscale providers.

German manufacturing should embrace AI-driven automation even where it reduces employment in specific sectors.