"Opinion: Germany's Bureaucratic Myopia
In Berlin eople applying for German citizenship have to sign a form allowing the state to process their 'racial and ethnic' data. DW's Jefferson Chase says that's typical of Germany's mania for senseless requirements.
Immigration and naturalization authorities in the city-state of Berlin have egg on their faces after the Turkish newspaper Hürriyet and the German online edition of the news magazine Der Spiegel reported that a form misleadingly seemed to ask would-be citizens about their race."
More:Opinion: Germany's Bureaucratic Myopia | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 07.02.2007