The motivation of a bureaucrat isn’t the effectiveness of the policies they produce, but instead the political ramifications of those policies.
The safety minded “take no risks” at all approach has been if not popular, tolerated because it’s hard to argue against safety, even if the safety gains are dubious, and expensive. And so they keep their jobs.
Fast forward a few decades of this, and now nothing much new can be developed.
But of course the bureaucrats are “smart” so they’re never to blame.
Frankly they deserve the ire they get for being part of the problem. When is the last time they got rid of an ineffective rule in the EU?
The safety minded “take no risks” at all approach has been if not popular, tolerated because it’s hard to argue against safety, even if the safety gains are dubious, and expensive. And so they keep their jobs.
Fast forward a few decades of this, and now nothing much new can be developed.
But of course the bureaucrats are “smart” so they’re never to blame.
Frankly they deserve the ire they get for being part of the problem. When is the last time they got rid of an ineffective rule in the EU?