To halt brain drain, Germany adopts 'competition' mantra
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A German court last week lifted a ban on tuition. 'Elite' is in; 'egalitarian' is out.
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A falling birth rate and an aging  population have prompted Germany's female leaders to shake up  the nation's old-fashioned family policies.
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GENEVA -- Switzerland opened its doors a little further yesterday to workers from the rest of Europe by dropping decades-old quotas it has maintained on the number of people allowed to seek jobs in the economically booming country.
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Germany's Deutsche Telekom  wants to step up its efforts to cut labor costs and boost competitiveness by redeploying a large number of its civil servants and slimming down its bloated administration.
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BRUSSELS  - The European Union head office said Monday it will do more to lure its workers out of the cocoon of the welfare state and toward entrepreneurship in an attempt to reach its goal of becoming the world's most competitive economy by 2010.
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Global competition can be a drag. It all but guarantees a steady stream of restructuring, outsourcing, and the nagging insecurity that comes from knowing someone out there may be trying to take your job.
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WARSAW (Der Spiegel) -- Young Polish workers have flocked in the hundreds of thousands to the UK, Ireland and Sweden to find work since Poland's EU entry in 2004. Now Poland is faced with a serious lack of skilled workers and Warsaw wants to entice them back home. One of Poland's biggest exports since joining the European Union has been its own people. But now Warsaw has decided the brain drain needs to be reversed and the government has launched a campaign to entice the migrants to come back home. Get the whole story here
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Germany, which has one of the world's fastest growing Jewish communities, is set to tighten liberal immigration laws granting automatic entry to all Jews from the former Soviet Union.
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Europe needs to create 'good jobs and fair conditions,' German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday as the EU's executive arm promised guidelines for more flexible labor laws to promote job growth.Comment
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The EU is presenting a 'blue card' that would aim to attract skilled workers to Europe and regulate immigration.
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German politicians, responding to what they saw as France's successful championing of domestic companies, began advocating deeper interference in business affairs a year ago as a way to protect German jobs.
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The EU announces new measures to attract skilled labour from Africa and curb illegal immigration.
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The German government will stick to its disputed goal of raising living standards in the formerly communist east to western levels despite the spiraling costs, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said Tuesday.
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The German government is counting on job market reforms to lower unemployment in 2005, while predicting growth of at least 1.5 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), according to a draft report quoted by the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
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The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is responsible for administration of the programme in Germany.
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The UK must lure foreign talent if it is to compete with the growing economic challenge of countries such as India and China, the government warns.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schrder has warned Germany's immigrant population to come out of the ghettos and integrate better into society, saying he will not allow a foreign culture to develop inside the country.