CAPTION: German business associations see a great need for reform in the country. (picture alliance/dpa)
German business associations see a great need for reform in the country. "We have to become faster, we have to become better," Rainer Dulger, president of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), told dpa: "We are overregulated, we are too slow. We are giants of knowledge, but dwarfs of action. That is our problem at the moment. We have to tackle it decisively." Approval processes need to be accelerated, he said, and industry needs a brake on bureaucracy and no new burdens. In the view of Siegfried Russwurm, president of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Germany must "get out of crisis mode and into design mode."
According to Dirk Jandura, president of the German Wholesale, Foreign Trade and Services Association (BGA), Germany needs to become "more modern, more digital, more flexible, and faster - in day-to-day work, in infrastructure, or even in the implementation of investment projects." At the moment, he said, the government is showing a relatively strong tendency to overregulate, and reducing bureaucracy must be a priority.
The head of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), Yasmin Fahimi, says she has "nothing at all against cutting red tape" where it relieves the burdens: "But that must not open the door to general deregulation. If you, as an entrepreneur, want fewer legal requirements and regulations, then the best thing to do is to take responsibility for ensuring that they are not necessary in the first place."
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