The leaders of Germanys’s 16 states agreed on a 200-point plan to modernize government services. Some measures include emails to replace paper documents, data sharing between agencies, cutting reporting and disclosure obligations, as well as documentation requirements. Germany has identified cutting bureaucracy as one of the main policies to kickstart economic growth. A study by the Ifo economic institute showed that excessive bureaucracy costs Germany nearly €150 billion a year in lost economic output.
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The leaders of Germanys’s 16 states agreed on a 200-point plan to modernize government services. Some measures include emails to replace paper documents, data sharing between agencies, cutting reporting and disclosure obligations, as well as documentation requirements. Germany has identified cutting bureaucracy as one of the main policies to kickstart economic growth. A study by the Ifo economic institute showed that excessive bureaucracy costs Germany nearly €150 billion a year in lost economic output.
Only 200?
That’s the most German headline ever.