One of the problems of the EU is that the largest countries (FR, DE, IT) are exactly the most ossified and bureaucratic ones, and their pro-endless-papering attitudes leak out through Brussels to the more nimble, but smaller players which find it harder to organize blocking minorities.
I find it interesting that most Germans don't seem to be aware of just how much worse their bureaucracy is than elsewhere, or even willing to defend such system as somehow optimal, even though it burns a lot of human energy and time while not
even moving forward, just spinning the wheels in sand. Their refusal to even start thinking along the lines "maybe the Poles or the Balts or even the Romanians are doing something better and we should learn something from them" is very stubborn, probably stemming from surviving prejudice against the Wild East.
These days, no one can compete with China et al. by burying their own economy in endless rivers of paper. This is categorically the false way.
I find it interesting that most Germans don't seem to be aware of just how much worse their bureaucracy is than elsewhere, or even willing to defend such system as somehow optimal, even though it burns a lot of human energy and time while not even moving forward, just spinning the wheels in sand. Their refusal to even start thinking along the lines "maybe the Poles or the Balts or even the Romanians are doing something better and we should learn something from them" is very stubborn, probably stemming from surviving prejudice against the Wild East.
These days, no one can compete with China et al. by burying their own economy in endless rivers of paper. This is categorically the false way.