Aging bureaucracy risks undermining Germany’s ambitions
By DW
21 February 2023 |
12:39 pm
From immigration to the energy transition, the success of Germany's biggest economic priorities relies on an increasingly older, paper-bound bureaucracy getting its act together.
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