This is not limited to Europe. I worked for a company like this in the US. The problem of course is the incentive structure: The penalty for violating some mino

This is not limited to Europe. I worked for a company like this in the US. The problem of course is the incentive structure: The penalty for violating some minor regulation was that the company would cease to exist (or so management assumed) while there was effectively no penalty for not getting the mission accomplished. Thus the only reasonable course of action was to do nothing.