Germany needs greater immigration to avoid labour shortages: Economy Minister

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BERLIN: Germany will need large-scale immigration to prevent severe labour shortages from undermining productivity and endangering a successful energy transition, its economy minister said as Europe\u0027s largest economy faces a demographic crisis. \u0022We have 300,000 job openings today and expect that to climb t

BERLIN: Germany will need large-scale immigration to prevent severe labour shortages from undermining productivity and endangering a successful energy transition, its economy minister said as Europe's largest economy faces a demographic crisis.

While improving training and flexibility on combining jobs with family would help, greater immigration will be essential"for engineers, craftsmen, for carers. We have to organise this," said Habeck, who is also Vice Chancellor in Germany's new three-way ruling coalition led by Social Democrat Olaf Scholz.

This gap is expected to widen to more than 650,000 in 2029, leaving an accumulated shortage of people of working age in 2030 of roughly 5 million.

 

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