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Bojan Pancevski
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#Hungary , Loudly Opposed to Immigration, Opens Doors to More Foreign Workers. Premier Viktor #Orban government recently began expediting work permits amid strong growth, declining population and rising wages. My report via ⁦@WSJ⁩ wsj.com/articles/hunga…
Hungarian re­cruiters now have to compete with countries like Germany for workers and of­fer free ac­com­mo­da­tion and sub­si­dized meals for immigrant labourers, as well as pro­vide in­ter­preters and re­turn trips to their home coun­tries. @WSJ wsj.com/articles/hunga…
Meanwhile, Germany still hasn’t approved a proper legal framework for labour immigration. Some recruiters say the Hungarian system for attracting skilled and semi-skilled migrant workers is better and more efficient. @WSJ wsj.com/articles/hunga…
The big­gest groups to get res­i­dency per­mits in Hun­gary in 2017 were Ukraini­ans,Chi­nese & Serbs. By con­trast, Syr­i­ans, Afghans & Iraqis were the most-rep­re­sented na­tion­al­i­ties among for­eign­ers re­ceiv­ing res­i­dency in Ger­many that year wsj.com/articles/hunga…
Sev­eral Hungarian re­cruiters said they had more dif­fi­culty bring­ing in cit­i­zens of Mus­lim coun­tries, though they have had some suc­cess in the case of highly skilled spe­cial­ists. @WSJ wsj.com/articles/hunga…
Paradoxically, the lib­eral op­po­si­tion to Mr. Or­bán’s na­tion­al­ist Fidesz party has crit­i­cized the gov­ern­ment for be­ing too lax on im­mi­gration. @wsj wsj.com/articles/hunga…
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Excellent threat as ever by the former chief lawyer of the #EU Council. I'd add a couple of things below:
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