Germany in a reform backlog

In a modern, globalized world, stagnation or even an economic downturn will come on its own without action. The constant striving of others to improve while at the same time doing nothing leads to an ever-widening gap, which ultimately leads to creeping ruin. For some time now, Germany has found itself in the uncomfortable position of being overtaken in more and more areas by a wide variety of nations. At some point, it will no longer be possible to catch up. Only if society as a whole, including political and economic structures, becomes more competitive will it be possible to keep pace with the rapidly developing nations. Change comes from positive change, which is generally referred to as reform. However, as Germany has to reform many areas at the same time and should have done so a long time ago, there is talk of a reform backlog. The following areas are affected, although the list is not exhaustive:

• Legal system must be streamlined and simplified
• Political system must become more grassroots democratic and performance-oriented
• Administration must be efficient and fully digitalized
• Lobbying and clientelism must be effectively combated
• The school and training system must be completely changed to ensure that the content makes sense

All of these are highly explosive and highly complex subsystems of a society and must therefore be analyzed and described separately