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Excessive regulation: too many rules, especially misguidedly conceived ones..
It was a lesson in how, despite its vaunted industrial sector, the German economy suffers from some of the same overregulation and sclerosis usually associated with much more troubled European countries.
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Overregulation means Excessive regulation: too many rules, especially misguidedly conceived ones..
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It was a lesson in how, despite its vaunted industrial sector, the German economy suffers from some of the same overregulation and sclerosis usually associated with much more troubled European countries.
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