Saxon tradespeople feel slowed down by excessive bureaucracy and are demanding noticeable relief.
"For years, if not decades, we have been confronting politicians at EU, federal and state level with this tiresome issue - without any significant results. At the very least, tradespeople have not noticed any real relief effects in their day-to-day business," explained Uwe Nostitz, President of the Saxon Trades Association, in Dresden. The future government is expected to show significantly more commitment in this area.
"The abundance of laws and other regulations that are almost impossible to keep track of, let alone to master in practice, must have an almost deterrent effect on every potential business founder or business transferee - and this at a time when skilled workers and managers are so urgently needed in the skilled trades," emphasized Nostitz. The skilled trades sector will increasingly measure the work of those in power in the future by how persistent they are in reducing bureaucracy.
