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Europe is the World’s Top Migration Destination

Three million people a year migrate from developing countries to industrialized nations, a population research group announced 21 August in its annual findings. Almost half of these migrants – 1.4 million people – move to Europe, though the continent is still facing unprecedented population losses from low birth rates. Italy is the world’s second

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Germany Rethinks High-Skilled Immigrant Visas

Berlin is to make entry easier for high-salary foreigners offered jobs in Germany, a government spokeswoman said in Berlin on August 4, after the existing high-skills plan flopped. Germany offers fast-track work visas to anyone winning a job with annual pay of at least 84,000 euros or offering to employ 10 people.

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EU: Looking to Boost Your Economy? Look East.

According to the European Commission, Britain has reaped the benefit of fully opening its borders to citizens of new EU member states of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus. The influx of workers from central and eastern Europe has boosted Britain’s economy, relieved skilled shortages and cut […]

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A Skilled Workforce: German IT Industry Does Not Have Enough of It

In the opinion of Bitkom – an association lobbying on behalf of the German IT industry – and its President Willi Berchtold, Germany’s immigration policy needs to be subjected to a rethinking process. As it is, the association states that the country already has too few engineers and other specialists in computer science, for example.

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Wieder geht Deutschland einen Sonderweg

eit Jahren rumpelt es in der deutschen Volksseele. Die „harmonischen innerbetriebliche Abläufe“, auf die laut Bundesverband der Freien Berufe (BFB) Personalentscheidungen „in hohem Maße“ ausgerichtet sind, drohen nachhaltig gestört zu werden. Das Schreckgespenst deutscher Verbandsfunktionäre – alles Männer – ist das AGG, das nach langem, gerade für Deutschland unendlich peinlichem Gewürge, auf seine Verkündung wartet.

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Französische Autohersteller: Freches Spiel mit Nationalitäten

Langsam streift die Kamera ĂĽber eine metallicgraue Autokarosserie, dazu erklingt die deutsche Nationalhymne. Eingeblendete SchriftzĂĽge kĂĽnden von den Pionierleistungen der Automarke: Kurvenlicht, Fahrwerk mit Niveauregulierung, Spurassistent. Soviel High-Tech ist typisch fĂĽr ein deutsches Auto, schlieĂźt der Zuschauer… und irrt sich.

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