Germany named best European country for startups for second year running

This is quite surprising, the first reason stated is GDP, which I don’t see as a perfect indicator for a good startup environment.

The second reason is low taxes, which especially for Berlin also isn’t true, there are different types of corporate taxes, they might have missed one and the personal taxes are very high which might scare off talent.

Finally there are the parts that are more difficult to measure, there’s a lot of bureaucracy and uncertainty (e.g. when hiring) so you end up paying a lot to tax consultants and many government services are not digital and very inefficient.

Now the comparison is in Europe so I wouldn’t be surprised if there are even worse countries, but places like UK or Estonia make it much easier to start in my opinion.