The economy in Saarland is suffering from low public investment and the politically prescribed structural change.
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Saarbrucken Tobias Hans is standing in front of a huge hole on the outskirts of Saarbrücken and is talking about the future. The Prime Minister, who is only 44 years old, holds up a banknote and says that it was printed on the occasion of his state’s 65th birthday this year. You can see the Völklingen Ironworks, the World Heritage Site of European industrialization, where iron and steel were manufactured until 1986.
You can also see the Cispa, the Helmholtz Center for Information Security, which now has 300 employees from all over the world, for which an additional building is now growing out of the deep hole and which is intended to give the Saarland University campus a new shine. The prime minister places the banknote in the time capsule for the foundation stone, as a document for posterity.
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