Germany’s Mega-Project Problem: Delays, Costs, and Reform Calls

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Try our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinguaSimplify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ app.From the Cologne Opera to nationwide infrastructure works, bureaucracy and rigid procurement rules drive delays and overruns — prompting comparisons with France’s swift Notre-Dame rebuild and calls for structural reform.

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