The saddest thing is that bureaucracy will stay, grow and flourish until the point of breakdown, when the system is not able to pay bureaucrats their salaries.

Or maybe even until they can't physically get to work (read with accent: "that I need to do even if I don't get paid")

Yeah, for many clerks the purpose of their lives is only to improve and enhance bureaucracy, and make the applicant's life miserable.

just hop the border and set up a learing center.

Wait until you find out about electronic invoicing mandates rolling across Europe.

honest question, what sane person outside Europe start a business/company in Europe? what possible benefit is there ?

now try closing your company for less than several thousand. lol.

you should consider UK company, enormously better. or sweden. continental EU is mostly backwards.

It all makes sense when you understand that this is deliberate, to crush the economy and innovation.

The EU is a single market, just form an entity in the quickest and easiest state to form it, open a bank account, payment processor and you’re off to the races, as long as you can accept Euros directly people are fine?

Who are these people that care

“Oh you don’t have a GmBH, oh your share capital is so low ohhh ho ho ho ho”

The only way to start a company in Germany is Societas Europaea and have lawyer parents. Otherwise don't bother.

I wonder what's the reason. Poland used to have horrible bureaucracy. You could argue this was due to lack of funds, or communist baggage. Yet, over the last decade digital administration has become a norm, rather than exception.

Germany doesn't have such excuses, yet there it is.