Prof. Dr. Ines Mergel on the private sector's shared responsibility for excessive regulation and bureaucratization

The Initiative for a New Social Market Economy (INSM), a market-liberal lobby organisation, has launched a pop-up museum to criticise the excessive regulation and bureaucratisation in Germany. Prof. Dr. Ines Mergel points out in the newschannel Deutsche Welle that the private sector is also partly responsible for this. She explains that civil servants and politicians usually draw up fairly broad guidelines. However, the private sector lobbies for many differentiated additions, guidelines and exceptions that lead to increased regulation. The full article can be found here.