Germany – Immigrant workers needed

Daily German newspaper, Die Tageszietung, calls upon the country’s Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats (SPD) to take action after a commission concluded that the country is in need of an estimated 25,000 skilled immigrant workers.

The commission’s report says there is a shortfall in skilled labor. Still, the SPD maintains that foreign workers should not be sought while the country has some four million unemployed. Even though the commission was looking to fill jobs for which there are no German takers.

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