The EU wants to create uniform start-up rules - but Germany is apparently putting on the brakes

Jan Schulte Jan Schulte | 18.03.2021

If the EU has its way, it should be possible to found a start-up within one day with less than 100 euros. But Germany is putting the brakes on the plans.

Start-ups should be able to be founded quickly and unbureaucratically across the EU in future. At least that's what it says in a joint declaration that the EU states want to adopt on Friday at the "Digital Day", as the Handelsblatt reports. In this way they want to ensure that young companies can grow quickly and don't fail because of bureaucratic hurdles. Germany, however, is insisting on national law in this regard, according to information from the Handelsblatt

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The Federal Republic apparently wants to make a protocol declaration at the insistence of the Ministry of Justice and oppose the fast and cheap online formation of companies. "In view of the existing principles of national company law, Germany stresses the importance and benefits of a careful legal examination in the formation phase of a company," Handelsblatt

quoted from the protocol note.

Criticism of the Justice Ministry's plan is already coming from the start-up association. "Completely insane. We talk all the time about wanting to be a modern country. Wanting to be a location for innovation. Wanting to be at the forefront. Wanting. Wanting. Want. But instead of just doing it, there's endless lamenting, slowing down and rambling. I don't understand it," writes Christian Miele, president of the German Start-up Association on Twitter. Dorothee Bär, Minister of State in the Federal Chancellery for Digitalization also criticizes the Ministry of Justice. "Start-ups must be possible in one day. The blockade of the @BMJV_Bund makes me stunned. We need bright minds & more startups, not fewer," she wrote on Twitter

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