No you are really not prejudiced

The postponed opening of this airport enlightens many main problems of European regulations and the ever increasing bureaucracy. Many moons ago I have realized that business is more and more difficult with public and private customers.

Many of them request for an ever increasing amount of certifications and checks. If you work as a freelancer in Germany you may participate in public tenders when you pay our taxes, fill out a self-estimation form and sometimes provide information/proof of knowledge. Then your bid is considered and in SOME cases you may win against some competitors wiht lower wage costs. The only further requirement is a concept, detailed offer or a small test.

But participating for a larger tender in the EU is nearly impossible. Some request an official seal of the TÜV or another authorized private company that you comply with the DIN or EN rules.

This costs you and your company lots of money even if this doesn´t deliver any benefit for the final customer or the public authority buying a service.

Furthermore some EU tenders require the disclosure of all invoices for cuostomers for e.g. more than a half year in order to be able to participate. So you may copy dozens or hundreds of invoices, transfer normally confidential information etc. ! Others require a certification that you have fulfilled projects of similar size or have an insurance with a really high sum insured.

All this leads to an enormous complex bidding and service process. Additionally there is an increasing number of rules concerning occupational health and safety.

To keep it short and simple: This postponing of the airport opening is only a small but visible sign of bureaucracy and IMHO terrorist activities by some certification authorities. One has always to keep in mind that TÜV & Co. are PRIVATE companies wanting TO SELL.

So it became true what I communicate as a joke to my office neighbour (and what sometimes is a bit nerving for him ): You can close every building site and every company with all the EU rules and also enforcing the most senseless one of them.....

Time to wake up now!