In Italy, the debate has focused on basic income, which encourages sitting on the couch rather than going to work, as Agriculture Minister Francesco Lollobrigida recently suggested. But in Brussels, the focus was on the lack of skills to meet the demands of companies (and to be filled with training and foreign workers). However, one […]
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Germany seeks regular immigrants: 60,000 more per year with new points system
Many jobs, few workers. Germany has decided to open up to 60,000 more regular migrants each year to fill the toughest labor shortage that has hit Europe’s leading industrial power. According to the figures announced by Berlin in the last quarter of 2022, there were approximately 2 million jobs ‘uncovered’ in Germany. A record describing […]
Solar industry suffers from manpower shortage: ‘1 million workers needed by 2030’
The European Union’s plans to increase the production and use of renewable energy collide with the lack of manpower in the sector, a sector that can lead to significant employment growth if adequately supported. According to estimates from SolarPower Europe, a Brussels-based research group, more than one million workers will be needed by 2030 to […]