Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Höttges lives and works in this productive core. He leads Europe's largest telecommunications company. With the merger of T-Mobile USA and Sprint, he creates a new player in one of the largest and most profitable mobile markets in the world. He is euphoric when he looks to America. He is more than worried when he takes on Germany and Europe in your sights.

In an Interview with the Morning Briefing Podcast, we have yesterday afternoon in the Bonn Telekom-control, he speaks uncomfortable truths, by the dozen:

Höttges had already said 2016, that Germany had lost in the race to the digital future in the first half. And how the game is after the break, I want to know from him. His response:

"We lose the second half. In the first half, it went to the consumer platforms, Social Media, Google , Facebook and Amazon . These platform companies are all originated in America or even in Asia, not only in Europe. In the second half, it's about where the data sit in the Cloud, in the so-called Hyper-scalers. And again, you do not sit in Europe.“ The Person

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Germany back in the case because the rules of the game of 21. Century is not, as such, accepted:

"The raw material of the 21st century. Century data. Today, we are the only data supplier. We provide our private data on Social Media to the big platforms for advertisers. We sell our data to huge Cloud-Data centers to the analysis of large-scale companies that develop Artificial intelligence and new productivity ideas. But the advocates will not take place in Europe.“

The German fear plays a special role here:

"we Germans in particular have a Tradition that we feel monitored. We had the third Reich and in the GDR there was also a surveillance state. We all fear that our individual rights, and in order for our data to be misused in any way. We did not even see the value in the data, and can also stand for the prosperity of society and our progress.“

About the competition from Asia:

"The South Koreans say: We are surrounded, like a Shrimp between whales. Therefore, we must, if we want to survive, make an effort to be better than everything that lives around us.“

His conclusion:

"Germany is on the rise. We are in the midst of this process.“

"What we lack is the will to invent ourselves new. Across all industry sectors.“

"We are self-righteous. We are spoiled with the consequences of our Billion.“

"We pull back in a Turbo-individualism, where we say, only our individual interest is the relevance, not the social progress of Germany or of Europe."

This in-depth interview with Tim Höttges you hear as the Morning Briefing special podcast on Saturday. Predicate: value. Valuable in particular for all those that to a business location, and would see this concern in progressive politics transformed.

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