In June 2020, the German federal government announced that €2 billion from its COVID-19 economic stimulus and crisis management package would be allocated to the development and construction of quantum computers. Research Minister Anja Karliczek announced the commitment, which supplemented the existing €650 million quantum technologies framework programme launched in 2018, according to Science|Business reporting.
The stimulus funding represented one of the largest single national commitments to quantum technology in Europe at the time. It supplemented EU plans for €1 billion in quantum investment through 2028 under the Quantum Flagship programme. Detailed implementation plans, including a quantum computing roadmap, were to follow in early 2021.