Europe needs immigrants

Countries like Germany now need immigrants to stabilize their population. Japan, which has not allowed immigration on a wider level, is facing critical problems with its ageing population.

British media say that this increasingly globalized world has more migratory movements than ever. In Europe, according to these media, population movement has been more significant from Eastern Europe, Portugal, Croatia, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro and Moldova, where more than 1/5th of the population has already moved.

Ireland comes right after with 18.8% of its population living in countries they weren’t born in. Bosnia Herzegovina has the highest population movement in Europe, 43% of their population, or 1.6 million in total. Albania has it at 38%. Germans, strange as it may sound, have also moved from their country.

Low birth levels will naturally lead to the need of importing foreign workers. The problem of Germany and other richer countries, is that they truly are a magnet for immigrants, but their integration, and the possibility to pick qualified people, remains a challenge.

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