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German bureaucracy needs major reforms throughout, their slowness, rigidity and extreme hard-on for paper-copies and disregard for any electronic means of doing stuff has it downright stuck in the 1970s
Germany went from a rightful position of frustration to a position deserving of rightful praise.  Successfully transitioning out of all Russian energy is itself a massive blow to Russia, nevertheless all of the financial and weapons transfers.  Germany had to break through a ton of bureaucracy and seriously reshape both political and energy policies to get where it is now.