Tino Chrupalla's plan has been shown to show some concerning holes

Tino Chrupalla has written a proposal that showed some rather concerning inaccuracies as the Afd’s response to modernising bureaucracy.

Kylie Maria Tan Kai Lee | SZ International

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Established in the first meeting with the German Bundestag, it has been talked about the modernisation from digital bureaucracy. Many members of the Bundestag have all said the same thing, that the bureaucracy needs to rework itself as its first phase of revitalisation. It happened to be the only thing that apparently all the parties agreed on. However, some may vary, however one

stood out today. As chairman of the Afd, Tino Chrupalla’s policy for digital revitalisation resulted in controversies within the German Bundestag.

Germany’s bureaucratic ways have been under much stress, with many parties citing the inconvenience of how many German citizens’ paperwork is under a huge messy system that needs to be sorted out. That was why the call for modernising the bureaucracy was the first step to revitalisation. While this had happened yesterday, Tino Chrupalla’s proposal was to digitalise the welfare portal to make it more convenient for German citizens. He had mentioned using AI and

automated devices to make it more efficient and more organised. Not only that, the AFD has planned to make the most of their time by having two separate databases: one for the citizens and one for the government. He posits that this method has been proven to be more data efficient.

This policy had, however, many problems that the Bundestag has rebutted. Firstly, Karsten Wildberger has questioned how AFD plans to manage these two databases in the long run, as Germany has failed to do online digitalisation in the long run. This has been due to many reasons, such as the framework conditions not improving, only particularly improving in 2021-2022. Chrupalla has rebutted Karsten's point by saying they plan on how he wanted a unified digital portal for all government circumstances and teach the German citizens to be more digitally savvy.

Attached below had been the frameworks of 2021-2023 howling the improvements and factors on modernising the bureaucracy and the concerns on why the digital modernisation may fail again. Wildberger was not the only one who pointed out how unstable this framework was. Dobrundt similarly pointed out the economic inaccuracies of this collated set of data.

Secondly, Alexander Dobrundt had pointed out that the number Chrupalla gave (50 million euros) would be higher than that considering the population density. It would actually be considerably higher, considering that Germany's cost to power a data centre is $0.35/kWh, and a data centre has approximately several terabytes (1 trillion bytes) (35000000 euros per month for one data centre). Upon calculating, one can approximately state that the fund would exceed the stipulated 50 Million Euros. Chrupalla rebutted the reasoning for such a significant wealth inaccuracy was because there were different policies that were different from streamlining. He added that they plan to construct these two databases with the 50 Million Euro fund arising from these economic policies.

Lastly, Lars Klingbeil wanted the timeline for this plan. Chrupalla answered that this plan would take place on the 1st of October. Klingbeil also pointed out that dependence on AI could lead to the rate of unemployment increasing. As of right now, unemployment sits at 6.2% (5,199,647). Citizens of Germany do not have jobs. By doing this, Germany is placing its working population in disarray.

Chrupalla rebutted that it would be for automatic purposes, noting that AI needs to be prompted to work and assured that it would not take over jobs.

Chrupalla’s points are very vague regarding the Afd’s framework of digitalising bureaucracy. Many AIs have been famous for taking over jobs, and with the current unemployment rates, this is something that many people in the Bundestag may not want to risk. It is also heavily noted again that even with new policies to implement, Chrupalla may not be able to achieve two databases with a fund of 50 million euros due to Germany’s high population density. Lastly, it is considerably very rare to be able to set up two databases in the span of approximately 4 months and 8 days in that short period of time, so it raises a question on how that would be possible.

In conclusion, it is noted that this was a shaky framework with many inaccuracies and questions for the agency on how this may be able to be funded with such a small fund in such a short time. The framework of automated devices is also a rather concerning detail for many citizens in Germany, for fear of losing jobs. It is further noted that without any elaborate follow-up, it leaves the question of whether this would affect more Germans more negatively than positively.

Bibliography

Statista. “Annual Average Unemployment Rate in Germany 2005-2025,” November 29, 2025. https://www.statista.com/sso/iplogin?__sso_redirect=/statistics/227005/unemployment-rate-in-germany/.

Business Sweden. “Germany Accelerates Digital Expansion (as of 12 September 2025),” n.d. https://www.business-sweden.com/insights/blogs/germany-a-new-era-for-investment/germany-accelerates-digital-expansion-as-of-12-september-2025/.