Die Deutschen sehen kaum Fortschritte beim Bürokratieabbau im Land.
https://www.dw.com/en/germans-see-little-progress-on-cutting-red-tape/a-76747976
Von FantasticQuartet
Die Deutschen sehen kaum Fortschritte beim Bürokratieabbau im Land.
https://www.dw.com/en/germans-see-little-progress-on-cutting-red-tape/a-76747976
Von FantasticQuartet
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Why would we? When the conservatives say they want to reduce bureaucracy, they mean they want to make it easier for rich people and corporations to skirt rules. This whole government is about making the rich richer.
Real change will only come to the EU nations when shit gets bad enough. The question is if it will be too late to course correct at that point
Until that point politicians will keep saying things and then be unable/unwilling to follow through
Maybe bureaucracy IS useful ? Maybe they are too much useless jobs in the private sectors ?
They haven’t tried anything and they are already out of ideas
The problem in the current political landscape is, the parties that claim they want to reduce beraucracy usually only want to get rid of those rules that forbid companies from poisoning your water.
Most parties do not care about the day to day problems we face due to beraucracy.
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Did the 200 step plan to reduce bureaucracy not work?
You don’t see the results because you didn’t book the appointment two weeks in advance on a form with 24 fields mailed to the local bureaucracy improvement office.
There is this German segment of a show called „realer Irrsinn“ which translates to „real lunacy“ where they do a little commentary on some incredibly ridiculous and stupid topic in Germany. 99% of the time it‘s yet another bureaucratic bullshit.
One such segment was about a town with an incredibly high spending on printer paper and ink.
Short story shorter is: They have implemented digitalisation for some processes. But somehow ended up with the requirement that once the processes are started on paper, they need to stay on paper and can‘t be transferred into the digital world and vice versa. So whenever they receive documents via email or other digital ways belonging to a paper-bound task, they need to print them out.
Because right wing parties don’t want to reduce bureaucracy but reduce regulations that protect people and environment.
And they add new bureaucracy if they can fuck over poor people with it.
Let me guess, the bureaucracy slows down the reduction of bureaucracy? People who have thebpower of decision-making want to keep their jobs?
Amthor didn’t deliver? Who’d have thunk it?
I witnessed multiple offices using fax machines still. The GenX/Boomer gen really don’t want any single changes.
„Germans see little progress.“ would suffice.
I saw a post from an American investor who was funding a German startup. They spent several weeks in negotiations, hashing out an agreement for series A funding. Once agreed upon, German law requires it to be read by a notary. A notary is an official who essentially acts as a legal witness for agreements. So they had to book an appointment with a notary, and then the founders and investors had to attend an in-person meeting with the notary. As required by law, they spent the next 12+ hours listening to the notary read each and every word of the agreement, to the people that wrote it! If anyone attending is not fluent in German they must also have an interpreter there, which doubles the time it takes to read everything. This is a mandatory step for any kind of shareholder agreement or capital contribution.
That’s just one very small part of the kind of bureaucracy you have to deal with in Germany.