> A lot of administration is still done on paper. Government organisations barely communicate, […] For every minor thing, you have to fill in a form. My impres

> A lot of administration is still done on paper. Government organisations barely communicate, […] For every minor thing, you have to fill in a form. My impression is that Germany requires a lot of paperwork, but this paperwork is often well guided and backed by organizations that are reasonably big and efficient. So the inefficiencies of living in a "paper bureaucracy" where you have to fill out a form for everything are there, but people barely notice them because the bureaucratic machine is well oiled. The problem is that if you happen to meet one of the not well oiled parts of the mechanism you will be crushed by the bureaucracy. But this is mostly a foreigners' problem, so it not a very important part of the political agenda.