Standards in Germany
I can say from personal experience that the Inspection Standards in Germany are not always what they should be. I worked for a major MRO in Germany in the hangar carrying out heavy maintenance.
We were tasked with performing Control Cable Inspections on large Boeing passenger aircraft. This wouldn't be quite as bad but we were employed as Aircraft Sheet Metal Workers; some had no prior experience of the task. I had to advise some of my collegues to at least run a rag down the cables to knock the dust off (a technique for inspecting for broken strands), but which also would give away that the cables had not been inspected. I never met the German Licensed Engineer who was oversigning our work; nobody ever asked any of us how we had inspected the cables. Shocking really.
There is a good reason the LBA is known as the "Lufthansa Bundesamt"