#bureaucracy

#bureaucracy

You send a tidy email at 10:12, outline the request, add a friendly "when you have a moment," and expect a reply before lunch. In Italy, the moment might be next Tuesday. If you are wired to hit inbox zero, Italy can feel like a slow lane. You write at 09:00, someone opens it at 18:47, and nothing lands until the following week. Then, when the answer arrives, it is complete, polite, and stamped with a protocol number like the matter just entered a courthouse.

A backpack is forgotten on the train. It seems a simple enough problem to resolve, especially in Germany, oft famed for its orderliness and efficiency. But when you're living as a refugee or in exile, the documents the bag contained are not mere pieces of paper to be reissued. They very well may be irreplaceable a displaced person's only means of existing within a coldly bureaucratic society. To lose them can be devastating, turning borders into walls.

My wife and I, our son and daughter, and my in-laws share a single house in the Long Island suburbs. Our place is big, but crowded: all of us have hobbies, and so every shelf or surface contains toys, books, art supplies, sporting goods, craft projects, cameras, musical instruments, or kitchen gadgets. Before the table can be set for dinner, it must be cleared of a board game or marble run.

All solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters must be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum under a new order that authorizes him to conduct elevated review of activities ranging from leases to rights of way, construction and operational plans, grants and biological opinions.

July 14th marks France's Fête nationale, or Bastille Day, celebrating the storming of the Bastille in 1789, which signifies the French Revolution's beginning.

Steve Dally faced a £70,000 charge after Waverley Borough Council misclassified a minor amendment to his planning permission as a new build, causing significant distress. 'I was blindsided,' he stated.

"A new term, Waldsterben (forest death), entered the German vocabulary to describe the worst cases."

Portugal's rapid rise as a dream destination for expats and digital nomads presents an alluring facade that hides complex realities for newcomers.

"Staying in Germany as a freelancer has never been easy - or cheap, and applying for citizenship is just as burdensome."

Sometimes a delicious little French cake... but other times a vital piece of bureaucracy. Why do I need to know macaron? Because you might be confused about why your car needs a cake.

The current political debate misunderstands the nature of the broadband issue at almost every level, as procedural simplicity alone cannot rectify the problem.

In the fast-moving world of AI, if it takes 18 months . . . I no longer need that company, their model is already obsolete.

It's a brutal reality to accept that... as you grow older, you may have to deal with bureaucracy, such as the Social Security Administration.

Judge James Boasberg's ruling reflects Kafka's bureaucratic absurdity, upholding the Trump administration's control denial over prisoners despite their direct involvement in their detention.

The U.S. has developed a culture of delay, characterized by layers of review and the threat of endless lawsuits that make project implementation incredibly difficult.

In politics, to be successful, you have to appeal to the future, not the past, Klein explains forcefully, in a video interview with EL PAIS.

The bureaucratic minutiae that fill our days are overwhelming, frustratingly banal but laborious and complicated.

In early April, Head Start child-care centers were told they must provide additional information before accessing funding, raising concerns over the future of the program.

A few have had success in addressing problems under their direct control by cutting programs, budgets or staff and returning actual dollars to the Treasury.

The dismissals were fueled by a bureaucratic turf war over responsibilities and personal conflicts, rather than substantial ideological differences as previously suggested.

"The ANEF site is crucial for foreigners in France seeking residency permits and citizenship, yet it's plagued by bugs and processing issues."

The citizenship application process is long and manual; it needs to be more digitalised. Applicants provide all documents; authorities only need to conduct police checks.