Germany invites skilled workers from Greece

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Germany invites skilled workers from Greece

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) -- Prosperous Germany has a surprising message for sinking Greece: Help Wanted.

With a shrinking labor force and buoyant economy, Germany desperately needs skilled workers to keep its industrial engine churning forward. Increasingly, it's seeking them from Greece and other European laggards like Spain and Portugal where unemployment is soaring amid fears of financial implosion.

Germany quickly overcame the financial meltdown that started in 2008 and unemployment is now at a 20-year low of 6.6 percent. Companies are so desperate to fill skilled labor shortages that the government has taken to organizing matchmaking sessions between German firms and job seekers from crisis-hit countries.

Greek civil engineer Christos Kotanidis moved to Erlangen in southern Germany three months ago and quickly found work with industrial giant Siemens.


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[xchrom]

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[provis99]

2. they won't let the Poles in, though!

Anybody but the Poles!

[Lucky Luciano]

3. That is the timeless question - what about Poland?! nt