Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe?
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Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe?
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#3When a newspaper article is headlined with a question the answer is always no
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#4How many outside professionals know German language. No wonder many won't prefer Germany.
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#6> Germany has liberalised its immigration rules, but the visa process is still glacial and the system favours refugees over professionals who might want to settle in the country.
A big issue for professionals to move is they have to learn German.
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#7How many outside professionals know German language. No wonder many won't prefer Germany.
The public services and service industry is particularly brutal to non German speakers. The unfriendliness is astounding if you don't speak german
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#8> Added to this are worsening geopolitics, the difficulty of eliminating carbon emissions and the travails of an ageing population.
Worsening geopolitics and an ageing population are more immideate problem compared to the inability to eliminate (not reduce) carbon emissions.
Or am I missing something? Can someone explain to me why ”eliminating carbon emissions” was sandwiched between the other two issues?
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#9> Germany has liberalised its immigration rules, but the visa process is still glacial and the system favours refugees over professionals who might want to settle in the country. A big issue for professionals to move is they have to learn German.
I've always thought about having simple dialects of languages: limited vocabulary, only three tenses, no declinations (in the languages they have, i.e. German) and only regular verbs (in the languages they have, i.e. Spanish). Would it be possible?
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#10> Germany has liberalised its immigration rules, but the visa process is still glacial and the system favours refugees over professionals who might want to settle in the country. A big issue for professionals to move is they have to learn German.
Agree in principle, but younger people do speak English a lot better and in cities like Berlin or Hamburg it's an even lower barrier.