German Chancellor Merz admits: We must substantially reduce bureaucracy in Europe. The single market was once created to form the most competitive economic area in the world. Instead, we have become the world champion of overregulation. That has to end.
German Chancellor Merz admits: We must substantially reduce bureaucracy in Europe. The single market was once created to form the most competitive economic area in the world. Instead, we have become the world champion of overregulation. That has to end.
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It has to end for our own companies but when it comes to foreign monopolies as in the tech sector we have to use regulation to support European competitors.
I would start by saying that Germany is in the top of the EU of overregulation. But it’s indeed true …. we need to make things more efficient. Regulation should be there to assure we have quality, health, safety and certainty. But it should not be there to make things more complicated. Burocracy costs money and life is already expensive..
A call for less bureaucracy is only credible if you specify which forms of control you want to give up, which interests you want less protected. Because that’s why we have regulations in the first place.
Not too long ago the EU introduced regulations forbidding words as “sausage” or “milk” to denominate vegan options. Not because consumers were confused and inadvertently bought vegan burgers, but to protect the interests of the meat industry.
So Merz, please specify which regulations protecting which industries do you want to abolish?
Regulations are there for a reason. Knowing Merz and his friends, they don’t care about the reason.
Make the process more efficient wherever possible, but make sure to not reduce or risk the health of us people.
When people like him say this, I’m assuming what he wants to get rid of is labour rights/unions and environmental standards. [I recall he doesn’t like German workers taking sick days, or something, no?] Regulations that protect entrenched monopolies/oligopolies/clients/rentiers, internet censorship, or NIMBYs are probably just fine for him.
People of the world, hear this: Reducing bureaucracy is the best selling in and from Germany, we are the best exporter of this very knowledge. It can be seen … soon be seen… errrr, we are talking about it but SOON we will….
We are talking about this reduction for more that two decades and still even could not figure our WHAT to reduce, WHEN and by WHOM. For me one of the best example that the talking is easy, the doing (esp. when it’ll annoy and hurt people) is the real pain
Soooo… Will UniCredit be allowed to buy Commerzbank?
As long as he isn’t talking about removing regulations that protect the consumers/population against profit seeking, corner cutting industries.
I’m sick of hearing obvious calls for less bureaucracy for decades, it’s the standard go-to for most speeches.
The issue is in the execution, folks. Previous attempts at reducing bureaucracy have been slowed down by…bureaucracy.
Heard that one before, classic neoliberal Ex Blackrock speech.
and fax machines, we should reduce fax machines …. 😀
Wouldn’t the term “European integration” be more appropriate than “deregulation”? One might sound like a safety line cut, compared to the other.
The stupid and necessary change that NO ONE wants it make is making English an official second language union wide. This would have the biggest impact for further integration.and economic growth.
The amount of paperwork and localization costs that would disappear overnight is incredible.
But we value our ethno states more than our union.
Reasons:
Companies break every law they can if no one watches
Goverment offices dont wanna give up influence
Goverment offices want to make their own rules(if two offices cooperate they have to follow the same standard)
If everybody is responsible for something than no one is responsible for anything
More bureaucracy allows more ways to block things politicians dont like
And shit heads like Merz want to follow the Nazi fascist Musk with his DOGE. Cut oversight and rules so companies can fuck up everything even more. Dont even have to destroy evidence if you never had to produce evidence in the first place. Or just cut the funding so oversight offices cant do their work.
If Merz could he would turn Germany into the same shit hole Trump turned the USA into
As a German, I find it hilarious a German is claiming the EU has too much bureaucracy.Â
UK here. Losing ‘bureaucracy’ fucked things up and made it harder.
The cycle of deregulation / regulation:
1. Companies complain about excessive regulations
2. Politicians: We need less regulation ! Why do we have to be stricter than other countries?
3. Regulations are abolished or reduced and this is presented as a benefit for the economy.
4. Bad things happen: Accidents due to faulty products. Catastrophies because of lax safety rules. Consumers are getting screwed by unscrupulous companies. There is unfair competition from companies with lower standards on safety, quality, employee rights.
5. The public: Why doesn’t the government do something to prevent this? We want to be protected.
6. Politicians: This needs to be regulated urgently !
7. Regulation is introduced and is presented as a benefit for the people.
Start again
“Merz admits” something vague about regulation. Cool framing bro. Presupposing that both an over-regulation problem exists and that Merz actually has an idea which regulations are too much and isn’t just spouting this shit because he knows some people will gobble it up, no matter how vague and useless of a statement he makes.
He is happy with overregulation as long as it benefits large coporations and his rich friends. All he wants is less oversight on what those coporations do and less protection for workers.
Regulation is at the end of the day **very** good.
90% of regulation is written in blood and is there to protect people.
Asking for a blanket cut in regulation and bureaucracy is a huge red flag
Yay looks like we’re moving closer to the shit sandwich US citizens got, less regulation for business more for ordinary citizens (e.g chat control)
Regulation isn’t the main issue here. It’s the cumbersome process in which the EU has to go on. First it has to be accepted within the EU parliament itself then it sends a directive to each nation within the EU membership to be passed in their own parliamentary system.
they will cut red tape, lengthways
Slippery slope
There is a reason billionaires always complain about overregulation and actively lobby for less regulations, because it hinders their ability to fuck over the consumers
Regulayion is positive, especially if it protects consumer.
What is wrong is the ampint of permissions, say-sos and paperwork needed every time.
It may also be slightly unrrlated, but there never will be an Jnited Federal Europe as long as thrre is no common fiscal policy.
Seeing what they did with the digital omnibus I think they are looking at the regulations from the wrong angle. Specifically, they are looking at them through the tech companies’ angle.
I’m about to lose my shit, like, what? Begin to reduce bureaucracy in Germany first, I live there and it’s absurd the layers of bureaucracy and lack of digitalization Germans have.
I love Germany, though.
It’s a bit of an empty statement when we don’t even know which regulations he’s referring to exactly. Any regulation that protects the common man is a good regulation in my book and one of EU’s biggest strengths is that they’ve got a lot of those. Getting rid of those would just turn the EU into another place where workers lose their rights and are treated as just a number on a spreadsheet.
But I like regulation. ðŸ˜
While this statement sounds good, remember: he’s called Fotzen Fritz for a reason.
Ha Ha Ha. Thats Comedy Gold. “German Chancellor Merz admits: We must substantially reduce bureaucracy” If there are people on this planet who do not know how to get rid of burocracy its the Germans.
I know what i’m talking about. I am one.
I own a small online-shop in Switzerland (side hustle). If I wanted to ship something to an EU country, I‘d have to register in each country I ship to, declare the used packaging (no matter if reused or new) for each country per year and pay recycling fee for the packaging.
This is just not business friendly for small businesses and for the below 10 shipments per year I previously had to neighbouring countries not worth the cost.
Other topic is like „vacuum cleaner cannot use more than 1000W“ yeah guess what, now I just twice as long to vacuum my apartment than with the older 2000w vacuum. And because i vacuum my apartment 12 h per day the power consumption has a huuuge impact on the electric grid.
Deregulation often is a dogwhistle for reduction of consumer/workers’ rights. I would like to know which legislation they plan to reduce.
Regulation protects the people and environment from reckless greed. We should be very careful to not deregulate too much!
FInally the champions of overregulation admit there is too much overregulation
Most people want more regulation, not less. That’s the way of thinking.Â
What a surprise, the Neoliberal establishment believes that this moment, as it is with every moment, should be met with farther-reaching neoliberalism.
attempting to lure in american billionaires who are now worried pushing for trump was a mistake.
dont make the same mistake as americans.
looks like the corporations got to him. does he think the people will stand for this?
Reduce bureaucracy and regulation to benefit who or what? Because history tells me it doesn’t benefit common people and the tricke-down economics that politicians and oligarchs love to talk about NEVER FUCKING WORKED.
Yay uncontrolled capitalism and unsafe food and polluted nature and no manufacturer responsibility 🤩🙌 Regulations are the biggest benefit of the EU to its citizens, lets not become america
Don’t trust this shitbag…he’s a backwards idiot with no plan other than his ego trip and lining the pockets of his corrupt politicians he surround himself with.
When they talk about reducing bureaucracy they mean deregulation and getting rid of accountability so their donors profit.
The EU using Russia and America as excuses to turn the bloc into a corpo friendly anti consumer anti democratic institution is absolutely on point for how things have been going over the past century.
Yah bro we just need to let the corpos do more stuff and then we’ll be strong.
Get fucked old man.
He wants to get rid of the “overregulation” that protects citizens.
It’s regulation that might slightly inconvenience companies (car manufacturers that fail to use new technology, farmers that want to pollute the earth as much as possible) he wants to get rid of.
Sounds like a recipe for disaster. Banking deregulation was a disaster, food chain deregulation never means anything good for public health, environmental deregulation would bring about calamity faster.
Don’t fucking listen to him (german here). He ist just another neo-liberal asshole. Every time he talks about “reducing bureaucracy” it’s only about reducing regulation on corporations to allow them to do more harm to people and the environment in the pursuite of more profit. It’s never ever to make life for regular people (or even smaller companys) easier.
Trumpist says musk shit.
Bureaucracy and regulation are different things but of course this Hurensohn will present it this way, to gut labor and consumer protections, to benefit his multimillionaire/billionaire friends.
No he doesn’t “admit”. He’s not saying he was wrong, he says *others* are wrong. Stop framing Merz as if he is finally recognizing some objective facts. That’s not what this is about.
Also, it’s not about bureaucracy. He says bureaucracy, to disguise his intentions, but what he means is regulations for corporations. Mainly, but not only, bureaucracy regarding workers rights. But also ecological regulations, safety regulations, basically everything that slows the pace of rich people becoming richer by enforcing protection for regular people.
He wants to cut your sick leave. He wants to cut a limit on the hours worked per day. And he wants you to comply to this by cutting social security: Keep your head down and make money for your boss or face state-sanctioned retaliation in form of poverty and losing everything you have.