> pissing away hundreds of millions of taxpayer Euros in the process to politically connected consultancy firms only to end up with a worse result That also ha

> pissing away hundreds of millions of taxpayer Euros in the process to politically connected consultancy firms only to end up with a worse result That also happens in the UK, don't worry - except in British Pounds. > Bureaucracy in Britain is massively simpler than in Germany It is. The counterpoint is that fraud is rampant and cronyism is the order of the day. A lot of stuff that in DE/FR/IT would be pursued by law enforcement as corruption is just part and parcel of public life here in UK.