German Labour Chief: We need 400,000 immigrants a year

Amren:

Germany needs 400,000 immigrants per year to fill the workforce of Europe’s biggest economy, the head of its national labour agency said.

Detlef Scheele said Germany’s ageing population meant that the number of working-age people was likely to decline by nearly 150,000 this year.

His comments come less than five weeks before a general election, with some politicians insisting there must be no new migrant surge into Germany.

But Mr Scheele said immigration needed to rise compared with recent years to plug gaps in the workforce. [Cont...]