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The shortage of skilled workers in the West and North of Europe, unemployment in the South and East. “Skilled Migration” is the new magic formula. Just, Eastern Europe is for losers, warns Norbert Mappes-Niediek.

Germany needs skilled workers, especially, but not only, in nursing and in health care. What is there to look than in the neighboring countries? All against immigration, only die-hards and right-wing are now anyway. “Skilled Migration” is the new magic word: Germany open to the world and plunges in the global battle for the best brains.

What speaks against it, if the Federal government is easier now with a new law interested young people from the Balkans to work in Germany? Nurses from Kosovo, for example? Nothing, of course; especially not if, as in Kosovo, the sisters are actually unemployed, sick, want to love to come to Germany. On top of that, most of the newcomers have when it comes to the statistics, the long-since relatives in Germany. The government in Kosovo is not so lucky. The German law does not. It would be a good idea, a clean Deal.

Eastern Europe is depopulated

In Eastern Europe, however, is increasingly expected to be different. Although many are, in fact, nurses are unemployed, you can hear about from Kosovo. But not because none would be needed. There is just no money, they also. No country in Europe spends so little on health as the latest. Care of yourself!, the Slogan of the Republic, contrary to smashes her sick.

Who can, The demand for nursing staff in Western Europe is a big place

Not only from the Balkan countries, also many of the newer EU member countries in the EU, young people still flocking to the West. Latvia has lost since the turn of more than a quarter of its population, Romania and Lithuania, around a sixth, and even in Hungary there are still six percent. In Bulgaria, 22 percent fewer people today than in 1990, and up to the year 2050 is supposed to disappear according to the latest forecasts once a quarter. Responsible for the loss of population, Emigration is two-thirds. For the remaining third of the decline in the birth rate.

Lack of prospects and lack of quality of life

Romania has the lowest Physicians density in the EU, Kosovo is the lowest on the continent. But in healthcare, the Problem is not only the most significantly. Other industries complaining about lack of staff. A dramatic decrease in the number of construction workers is gone. In the Boom regions in the European East, construction projects remain for months, because there are no workers. It would pay you better, would the apartments you build for newcomers from the country’s priceless – a vicious circle.

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It is no longer – or only in exceptional cases – the pure Need that drives people to continue. You go, because you can do it. In the West more attractive education lure offers. The better Educated also appreciate the international atmosphere of Western cities. Also, the wage gap plays a role, though often not the decisive one.

Comfortable, however, the existence is not in the German low-wage sector. It would also return again. But what determines the return to home, close to – for example, that the children with the mother tongue can be big, or that your parents are getting old-is tangible disadvantages. The content is usually at least by half. Sometimes even higher-quality financial statements will not be accepted. The bureaucracy is often sluggish.

The East always has the worse cards

Returnees to see available positions are often occupied by less well-trained, but much better networked colleagues. Are fun went to the Open, Adventure; remained often the Slower, Engstirnigeren. Who comes out of suspended regions or from the countryside, went missing after returning to the variety of leisure activities, the reliability of the authorities and of the courts. In the battle for the best minds of the East always has the worse cards.

In the Eastern European countries, the population decline is surprisingly not a big issue, and if it is, then a skew. It is mainly the right-wing parties, against the “white plague” are not to warn, before the Disappearance of the Nation, women back to the kitchen want to drive and emigration in the smell of treason. The Modern, reform-oriented, however, hold back with criticism – probably because a lot of self-play from time to time with the thought to try their luck elsewhere.

Meanwhile, in Eastern and South – Eastern Europe, the construction workers rar.

This action is needed. When whole regions were empty, villages reclaimed by nature, pension systems implode and no one is there to quench the ageing population, the increasing demand for care, it becomes sooner or later a Problem of the whole of the European Union.

Problems of tomorrow

Structure of a policy may be in the first place a Problem of the individual member States. The appeal to use is that if the States lack the resources to promote their regions. The development model of the post-reunification period, mass foreign investments, for the decrease in population is not a solution: Increase the wages, so the workers remain (maybe). The investors pull. And the low taxes that you have been to the country, enticed, missing the States, when it comes, to make the suspended regions.

A Europe that welcomes workers from the East, will sooner or later have to also the remaining. Might start it in order to strengthen the cohesion Fund of the EU in the next financial plan to cut. And to distribute its funds more per head, but according to Region. It would be a start.

Norbert Mappes-Niediek lives in Graz, Austria and Southeast Europe correspondent for many German-language Newspapers.