Bureaucracy in Germany has increased in recent years, statistics show. Companies have to fulfill almost 16 percent more information requirements than ten years ago.
The planned Bureaucracy Relief Act IV is intended to provide companies and citizens with a total relief of around 682 million euros per year. BSW chairwoman Sahra Wagenknecht has called on the federal government to abolish many senseless regulations and reporting requirements. She accuses the traffic lights of a “regulatory frenzy that was primarily ideologically motivated”