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Germany's IT Planning Council agrees common Deutschland-Stack platform core

Germany's IT-Planungsrat, uniting the federal government and the Länder, agreed a common Deutschland-Stack platform core and initial portfolio: binding shared services for identification, data exchange, retrieval, payment and notification across administrative levels.

Verified Editor-read BMDS (Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and State Modernisation) press release, 18 March 2026

What it does not test. Does not establish that any federal agency or Land has yet deployed the platform core, only that the shared standard was agreed.

How this item counts. Towards autonomy: it changes who owns, who operates. Binding 2 of 3 (agreed or funded), scale 2 of 3 (medium), Verified counts in full: weight +8 of 36 possible. Federal and Länder agree shared sovereign platform core; standard adopted, not deployed. European 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 2026-09-20. How the record is made

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