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# German cabinet gives Digital Ministry veto over federal IT spending
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-12-03-germany-digital-ministry-it-veto/
- Published: 2025-12-03T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-08T12:00:14.000Z
- Description: Germany's federal cabinet gave the Digital Ministry an approval requirement over significant federal IT spending, covering projects above EUR 500,000 a year or EUR 3 million in total. Military, police, intelligence and tax systems are excluded.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Policy and law, #news, #verified, #editor-read

Verified Editor-read [Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernisation (BMDS) press release, 3 December 2025](https://bmds.bund.de/aktuelles/pressemitteilungen/detail/starkes-instrument-fuer-it-steuerung-des-bundes?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish which individual IT projects have since been blocked under the veto.

**How this item counts.** This item is dated before the index starts on 1 January 2026, so it does not count in the [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/).

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above; read and approved by the editor on 2026-10-07\. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)