Overview

• Ministers plan to adopt a Modernisierungsagenda with more than 80 measures targeting a 25% cut to bureaucracy costs, estimated at about €16 billion, and at least an 8% staff reduction in federal ministries and the Bundestag by 2029.
• Proposed steps include an online portal for reporting red tape, AI-assisted law drafting, digital training for civil servants, a single electronic vehicle registration, and 24‑hour online company formation plus a digital “work‑and‑stay” agency for foreign professionals.
• High tech and innovation are billed as priorities for competitiveness, though officials do not expect immediate concrete decisions in these areas during the two-day meeting.
• External speakers include economist Markus Brunnermeier, Lufthansa executive Grazia Vittadini, and Schwarz‑Gruppe CEO Gerd Chrzanowski, whose presence draws scrutiny given the group’s Stackit cloud push; the Chancellery rejects any commercial motive for his invitation.
• The venue signals a stylistic break from past Meseberg gatherings and a bid for team cohesion, even as unresolved coalition differences over fiscal rules, energy policy and labor issues await later decisions, with a late‑October or early‑November cabinet session planned to pass relief measures.