I find that Europe often has things like this. That is, the “easy way” that everyone uses.
The frustrating thing is that there is no way of learning about it until you’ve already endured months of pain trying to follow the impossible steps outlined on the official government website.
If that site had a little notice on top saying “Stop! Nobody does it this way! Google this term instead”, that would save a lot of pain.
I'm Dutch (Netherlands) and lived in Germany a while. I started companies in both. The Netherlands is ultra-quick and cheap. Germany not so much as per this thread.
The mythical "European state" where everything works the same does not exist.
The frustrating thing is that there is no way of learning about it until you’ve already endured months of pain trying to follow the impossible steps outlined on the official government website.
If that site had a little notice on top saying “Stop! Nobody does it this way! Google this term instead”, that would save a lot of pain.