What does the German Bundestag have to say about the current Bureaucracy problem?

The first meeting of the German Bundestag comes off with a kickstart, with many saying that we should be modernising the bureaucracy as the first step to revitalisation.

Kylie Maria Tan Kai Lee | SZ International

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The first meeting started with a great start. Many members of the German Bundestag have talked about what areas should be focused on. Many politicians have opposing views on mandated military conscription, and most of the focus should be on being able to pass information from the government to the citizens in Germany. Nevertheless, it was considered to be a rather fruitful first conference.

Lars Klingbeil talked about defendant investment. Investing in ministries like job trading and housing can cause the country to develop more economically and lower the rate of unemployment in Germany. Shown below is the graph. 

While unemployment has decreased over time, 6.2% of Germans (5,199,647) is still too much, and there should be a solution to solve this.

Alexander Dobrindt advocated for the need to recover bureaucracy. He suggested removing bureaucratic barriers, and they seek to establish a digital database and a federal portal to share all updates with the government more efficiently. They will also confirm a data sharing frequency in all states and continue their expansion.

Britta Hassmann from the Greens talked about decreasing working hours when the labour or participation can be enhanced with training instead. It is important to take note that Britta is saying every German is important. She had questioned how the German Bundestag could support these Germans. She emphasised the need to change the initial plans from physical copies to a digital copy, to a digital database, and streamlining on a digital database that is not stored as a photo. Copies will have one database for the governments and citizens, when in regards to adopting the new strategy.   

Katherine Reiche talked about economic revitalisation. She suggested limiting the workforce through upscaling. Reiche talked about how the CDU spent three hours on the topic to modernise its bureaucratic structure. Due to logistical and operational factors, to suggest feasible options for the accessibility of housing.  

Stefan Seidler from the SSW suggested implementing a wealth and income tax. This will help minorities as they spend more on goods and services because of their unstable income. Attached below is a graph backing his claims.

He also talked about mandated conscription and stated that most of the German citizens are not experienced in military combat. He suggested investing in more small and elite units as it would make the army better-equipped and highly trained.

JENS SPAHN rejected that the bureaucracy has been modernised and that the German bureaucracy is complicated, and hoped that this solution would be faced in the next two sessions, and wants to not implement the system in every state. These ministries have their own databases. 

Karsten Wildberger also talked about the need to eliminate bureaucracy. This fund will consist of 500 billion Euros. More funding can be put into utilities, hence this will be used as a digital system. This will increase the convenience of communication, hence digital copies will be shared in this digital database. She reiterated Spahn’s point that this funding will come from. Tax breaks and agreed with Dobrindt’s point on bureaucratic efficiency. This funding will go to computers, reliable wifi in administrative buildings, and shared databases between government agencies.

Carsten Liineman rebutted Dobrindt's point by saying, “Taxing the rich is not the best solution as many of these rich people would just leave the country.” He emphasised that this will increase the economic problem and may reduce government income. He emphasised that government modernisation will let them reach their full potential. 

However, from the Alternative for Germany (AFD), Dr Alice Weidel talked about the immigrant and population density. Weidel also talked about reinstating re-immigration of foreigners to control the population density, as German citizens should decide who is allowed to be let in or out of Germany. While that is a reasonable solution, it would not help at all with the current situation of revitalisation. 

The current situation of revitalisation is economic loss in Germany, and re-immigration would need a lot of money to re-immigrate many immigrants. Tino Chrupalla said they should be pushing for digitalisation policies. He said this would protect many businesses and cause the economy to be more protected, and that, in accordance with what the Greens and CPU do, they should push for the digitalisation of bureaucracy in the business districts. This would increase funds in these business districts

In conclusion, while there have been some noticeable points like modernising bureaucracy, it is to noting that the members of the German Bundestag had not approached the problem of healthcare and that by modernising bureaucracy.

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