RE: Jet fuel demand recovery21 Mar 2021 14:24
@BJ...you asked about EU bureaucracy. Can’t speak for all Member States but couple of local recent frustrations
1. Annual renewal of Dog Licence, not an issue in itself but the poor chaps on his 9th renewal and each year they insist on seeing a current Pet Passport for him. No logical explanation is ever given, as local scruffs don’t travel, but he’s shown as an English Pedigree, so clearly they think he’s not to be trusted.
2. Just changed local Bank . Signed Agreement Form , translation not available but fine , but was then asked to countersign every single page ...over 25 Pages. Two were stuck together so one didn’t get signed ...had to return to Bank to complete.
3. My Partner took out local Residency recently, needed to show proof of income and where lived via Title Deeds, fine but was then asked to obtain 2 signed witness doc’s from neighbours on the Electoral Roll to confirm she actually lived there. Our nearest neighbour who’s over 80 has never been on the ER but votes anyway as his wife says ‘ oh everyone knows Joe’. He signed the form which was duly accepted !
All quite quaint in a way but as most stuff also then seems to get photocopied you just wonder about some of its effectiveness. Anyway its off topic, so will leave there !