Germany Is Experiencing a Mass Worker Shortage. Can Migration Fix It?

  • Germany’s economy will be missing 7 million people by 2035
  • AfD has surged in polls amid opposition to immigration
WATCH: Germany will be missing up to 7 million workers by 2035. Oliver Crook reports.Source: Bloomberg
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Sipping Turkish black tea outside the doner shop he runs in the Berlin neighborhood of Kreuzberg, Faruk Can reflected on the many new faces he’d noticed in the area.

“There is still a lot of regular and even irregular migration to Germany from Turkey,” he said. “Every week I bump into 10 to 20 Turks who ask me about how they can relocate here.”