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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by oh_sigh on Friday July 17, 2020 @02:32PM (#23873834)
Why would the management of a massive project be given to a group that has no experience with such a massive project?
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by tormeh on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:30AM (#23881286)
There's a podcast on this. "How to fuck up an airport". The short answer is that all the bids were realistic-ish, and therefore too high for the budget. So the Berlin politicians went "We'll do it ourselves! Much cheaper!". And lo and behold...
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Re:Germany’s top financial supervisor dismissed a decade of ... by HPsquared on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:46AM (#23880457)
Any number of reasons. Maybe they had the lowest bid?
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