At the re:publica internet conference, Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger (CDU) took up the cudgels for greater digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe. He wants to make open standards and open source the "guiding principle", emphasized the former CEO of Ceconomy (MediaMarkt and Saturn) on Tuesday in Berlin. The urgency to become more independent of traditional software providers, cloud service providers and big tech companies from the USA is "greater than ever". According to Wildberger, German and European IT solutions offer the opportunity to create platforms and build technologies that are based on "our values". Achieving a digital administration with functioning e-government is another "big issue" that Wildberger wants to tackle.