Stuttgart/Mannheim (dpa/lsw) - In the fight against the shortage of skilled workers, Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann is calling for more immigration. Specialists would have to be specifically recruited from abroad, said the Greens politician in the daily newspaper "Mannheimer Morgen" (Saturday edition).
"The shortage of skilled workers at all levels will be the big problem of the future," Kretschmann told the newspaper. But immigration alone will not solve the problem. "One possibility is that we have to work more.
Germany has the shortest annual working time in Europe," said the head of government. Germany is in "tough international competition" and material prosperity will decline. "We have to get back to more robust things in life," Kretschmann demanded.
