Germany has stood for quality, efficiency and engineering for decades. But today, visitors to Europe’s economic metropolis are often surprised to find a country where many things simply don’t work. Trains are often late, roads and bridges are in poor condition, car sales are stagnating and public administration is entangled in a web of bureaucracy and suffers from a lack of digitalization.<\/p>\n
Add to this a series of public planning fiascos \u2013 from the delayed central station in Stuttgart to Berlin International Airport \u2013 and it feels as if progress has been hurled against a wall. To many it appears as if the country is in a permanent state of delay and decay.<\/p>\n
The podcast "Delayland" is moderated by business journalists who are turning their attention to a closer challenge: Germany’s race to keep up in a rapidly changing world. Fresh from their award-winning investigative work, the duo is now exploring where Germany got off track and how it can get back on track.<\/p>\n
Each of the five episodes is a journey through dysfunction – but also a search for solutions. The hosts travel from Switzerland to India, from France to Denmark and discover what lessons these successes could mean for Germany. "Delay country" is not just a business podcast. It is a psychogeography: a map of Germany’s mindset, its post-1945 identity, its superiority complex and its fear of change. In short, a national therapy session.<\/p>\n
The podcast is available on various platforms, allowing listeners to tune in and explore the challenges and potential solutions for Germany’s current state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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