Administrative simplification is not noticeable. At least, not enough. Companies, farmers, and self-employed workers start from a system that is so cumbersome, with so many accumulated procedures, administrations that do not always share information, and procedures that are duplicated, that the measures promoted in recent years by the Government are, for a good part of the sectors consulted, a drop of water dissolved in a bureaucratic sea built over 40 years. They do not deny that steps have been taken. What they question is whether they have managed to substantially change the daily relationship between the administered and the Administration.

The craft beer sector in the Balearic Islands is going through one of its most delicate periods after years of hard work and the boom of a decade ago that boosted sales and the industry. Far from the image of expansion that characterized the years before the pandemic, small producers and brewers report a continuous decline in consumption and are struggling against increasingly burdensome and restrictive regulations. They denounce that this crisis has led to the disappearance of many historic brands and is constantly suffocating those that remain. "We haven't recovered from what we had before COVID, not by a long shot," warns Miquel Amorós, founder and owner of Mallorca Beer Co., a company that currently produces in an emblematic location that was once another industrial site: Menestralia, in Campanet. However, the brewer maintains that currently, "every day is a fight to avoid closing down."