http://standpointmag.co.uk/taxonomy/term/68 The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://standpointmag.co.uk/european-eye-may-13-turkish-wrath-mara-delius-zschape-murder-trial <p><b>Author:</b>Mara Delius</p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify">Europe's reputation stands and falls with its attitude towards bureaucracy. One regulation gone wrong, and we're back to bendy bananas and the Eurocrats grimly destroying the freedom of countries with their rulers. Or such is the British perspective. For Germans the opposite is true. The European idea has always been seen as a way out of trouble: a gateway out of the small-mindedness associated with domestic bureaucracy, a path to more freedom, not less. </p> <p style="text-align: justify">Perhaps unexpectedly, bureaucracy is something of a pet hate for Germans: we love our lives to be structured and organised, but we're also afraid of Kafkaesque tendencies, where order doesn't make life easier, but leans towards the downright sinister.</p><p><a href="http://standpointmag.co.uk/european-eye-may-13-turkish-wrath-mara-delius-zschape-murder-trial"><span>read more</span></a></p> http://standpointmag.co.uk/european-eye-may-13-turkish-wrath-mara-delius-zschape-murder-trial#comments European Eye Bureaucracy German Court System Germany Turkey Zschape Murder Trial Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:37:00 +0100 Frances Weaver 4979 at http://standpointmag.co.uk