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The German economy depends on foreign labor. The federal government has therefore launched a program to bring in foreign workers and experts from other countries in Germany under the motto "Make it in Germany". This is the national priority.
“Without foreign experts, we cannot maintain our current well-being. It is not possible to wait too long for these people, we must work for the possibility of their arrival,” said Labor Minister Hubertus Heil, as DW in Albanian reports.
The German Bureau of Statistics claims that the number of citizens ready to work in Germany will be reduced by 2035 to four to six million workers. In many economic areas, there is a shortage of manpower.
According to data from the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), even 56 percent of enterprises think that a lack of manpower is currently their biggest problem.
Every third German company in recent years has hired labor from other European Union countries, respectively from third countries. Many German companies are unable to accept new applications due to a lack of manpower and are experiencing significant financial losses.
Good for Germany, bad for the Balkans?
Germany's new labor force law comes into force on March 1 in Germany. This law should facilitate the entry of labor, but also the search for the labor force required by non-EU countries. In the future, the rules that give priority to persons from EU member states will no longer apply. One of the regions targeted by German employers is the Western Balkans. Workers from these regions have a good reputation.
"In the past, we have had many requests from the Western Balkans, which is one of the most important regions for us. There we find and find very good, qualified and expert power, and there are also many people who speak German, which is one of the great advantages for rapid integration into work and society," says Torsten Rolfsmeier of the Federal Office for Employment
The motive for going to Germany is not only the best salaries, but also corruption, lack of perspective and lack of rule of law in the countries where they come from. The OSCE claims that 650,000 people left Serbia alone between 2000 and 2015 - nearly a tenth of the population. Similar situations exist in other Western Balkan countries.
Among them are very young, highly qualified people, after which there is a large gap in the labor market in these countries and the problem of demographic movements intensifies. On the other hand, these persons send remittances to their country of origin and thus help maintain social peace in these countries.