Economics
German Labor Agency Chief Says Country Needs More Immigrants
The country of 83 million needs some 400,000 immigrants a year, he estimated.
Detlef Scheele
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Berlin (AP) -- The head of Germany's national labor agency says the country needs significantly more immigrants to plug gaps in the work force as the population ages.
Federal Labor Agency Chairman Detlef Scheele said in Tuesday's edition of the daily newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung that he expects the number of working-age people in Europe's biggest economy to decline by nearly 150,000 this year.