Open for Business in the EU!

The French invented the word *bureaucracy*, so you’d expect that getting anything done here would involve a respectable amount of… well, bureaucracy.

At least that’s what all my French friends told me before I moved.

But today I received my micro-entrepreneur status — and the whole process was online.

I never went to any préfecture, never had to translate a single document into French, and everything moved surprisingly smoothly.

It took about two weeks end-to-end, most of it just waiting for INPI to process my file.

Opening a business in Istanbul took less time, but it cost me ten times more.

Maybe it’s a Parisian thing.

Or maybe France is changing for the better.

Either way: officially open for business in the EU! 🇪🇺🇫🇷