July 24, 2007
SHOW THEM THE MONEY:
Germany mulls opening job market to eastern Europeans (AFP, Jul 24, 2007)
The German government said Tuesday it was considering loosening its employment restrictions on workers from EU member states in eastern Europe to plug a yawning labour gap in key sectors."If we continue to suffer from a labour shortage in Germany, we could consider lifting the limits on eastern European labour before 2009," Gerd Andres, state secretary at the labour ministry, told the daily Hanoversche Allgemeine Zeitung.
He said Germany lacked staff both in high-qualification fields such as engineering as well as in the low-wage sector.
Soon they'll have to offer cash to get the increasingly valuable immigrants.
MORE:
More than 700,000 immigrants given right to work in just one year (JAMES SLACK, 25th July 2007, Daily Mail)
More than 710,000 foreigners were given the right to live and work in Britain last year - including 321,0000 Eastern Europeans.It takes the total number of National Insurance numbers handed out to immigrants to more than two million in the past four years alone.
Yesterday's figures reveal that - despite Labour's promise to switch to a policy of "controlled" immigration - the number of people being handed the right to work here is still increasing.
Posted by Orrin Judd at July 24, 2007 9:19 PM
What an irony if, for example, most of East Germany ended up being occupied by Poles.
Posted by: Jim in Chicago at July 24, 2007 9:28 PM"More than 710,000 foreigners were given the right to live and work in Britain last year".
That is crazy, it almost sounds like LEGAL immigration... that is so wrong, right OJ? Who needs all that extra paperwork and legality and such when, well, you know the drill...
Posted by: darryl at July 25, 2007 12:54 AMJim: It already is. Check your history of the end of WWII.
Posted by: Lou Gots at July 25, 2007 4:11 AMTheir history of not learning from history will probably cause them to repeat it, i.e., not welcoming the immigrants as potential fellow citizens, but as merely hired hands.
Posted by: erp at July 25, 2007 8:48 AMDarryl,
The Uk is the size of Oregon, has one-fifth the population and one-sixth the GDP of the United States yet they can allow 700k legal immigrants while the US only allows 800k? We have so many illegals because our immigration laws are outdated and un-American.