Der Spiegel asks us in which European country
- a soft porn starlet is being considered for a cabinet post,
- labour representatives jet off to company-paid visits to brothels,
- a media mogul crazy about music controls 80% of the tabloid press
- according to a World Bank Report, the red tape required to start a company is more inscrutable than Rwanda or Kazakhstan, business executives run their companies into the ground and then expect bailouts from across the Alps, and the population, despite catastrophic economic data, wants none of the economic crisis and instead insists on living la dolce vita as if nothing had happened.
The answer is Germany (the starlet is Dagmar Woehrl, currently a secretary of state in the economics ministry, the media mogul is Mathias Doepfner and the World Bank quote is from their report ‘Doing Business’, 2009).
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