UNNECESSARY REQUIREMENTS - We are not an isolated case!

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This video has been trending in Germany, and Austria

The video provides a hands-on account of how unnecessary regulations and excessive bureaucracy slow down companies and tradespeople in their day-to-day operations. Right from the beginning it becomes clear that even minor changes to machinery, buildings or workflows now trigger entire chains of permits and paperwork. The time, money and nerves spent on noise, environmental and safety certifications are immense, while the actual benefit often remains questionable.

Using concrete examples, the narrator illustrates how every new regulation imposes additional inspection reports, training sessions and documentation requirements. Instead of focusing on their core business, firms are investing more and more working hours in paperwork, online portals and deadline monitoring. This two-fold burden poses existential challenges especially for small and medium-sized enterprises, craftspeople and family-run farms, whose staff and financial reserves are limited.

The video stresses that this problem cuts across all industries. Whether construction companies, bakeries or trucking firms—numerous viewers in the comments report identical experiences. The consequences are declining competitiveness, a shortage of young talent and growing frustration with politics and public administration. Many businesses are considering postponing investments or relocating abroad altogether, where similar requirements are organised far more efficiently.

In its final section, the piece calls for a determined reduction of bureaucracy. Digital procedures should simplify reporting channels, proof obligations could be bundled or abolished, and practitioners should be involved early when new laws are drafted. The speaker urges viewers to publicise their own examples of unnecessary regulations, to sign petitions and to confront their elected representatives directly with the real-world consequences of mounting regulation. Only massive pressure from business and society, he argues, can prevent Germany from remaining stuck in this administrative jungle

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