A modern state that wishes to manage crises effectively needs an efficient public administration. Yet recent years have shown just how much the German state is struggling in this regard: Crisis situations such as the labour market and welfare state crisis (from 2002), the financial crisis (from 2009), the refugee crisis (from 2015) and, most recently, the coronavirus pandemic have laid bare structural shortcomings. So what, specifically, needs to be done to enable the state and its administration to function more effectively?
The Council for the Review of Legislation has issued recommendations for the sustainable modernisation of the state and its administration. It is now up to the politicians to act.
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