Bureaucracy altitude: Examples from Germany show chaos!

Bureaucracy altitude: Examples from Germany show chaos!

The German bureaucracy is on the rise - and with dramatic consequences! The federal government has shown that bureaucracy costs have been reduced by three percent since 2012, but the number of regulations has risen by dizzying 20 percent to over 52,000. In addition, a whopping 325,000 new positions in public administration have been added since 2015, everything financed with tax money that now cause even more unnecessary expenses.

A shocking example from Pforzheim shows how parents are persecuted by a bureaucracy jungle when registering for the daycare center. While cities in Germany are fighting for childcare places, parents in Pforzheim have to go through complex registrations via an online system, followed by complicated fee calculations that require individual evidence. This leads to considerable difficulties and delays when booking the contribution.

The bureaucracy also shows its ugly face in the case of an outdoor pool in Hesse, where a springboard has to be demolished after 30 years just because it does not correspond to the regulations by five centimeters. And as if that weren't enough, the expansion of the A33 motorway near Osnabrück has failed since 2003 solely due to bureaucratic hurdles and lack of statements from Brussels. The fight against the bureaucratic monster remains a challenge for Germany-the problem is becoming increasingly pressing, as reports www.merkur.de .