especially Eastern Europeans migrate to work in other EU countries. Their home countries are losing skilled workers. The consequences of the free movement of workers, EU Finance Ministers discussed now in Bucharest.
The host speaks from bitter experience. His country more than a Million workers are missing, currently, the Romanian Finance Minister, Eugen Teodorovici said. They have gone to other EU countries, where there are more Jobs and better paid.
That people can choose in the European Union, where you want to work with, has a lot of advantages but also a downside: “Namely, when the mobility of the Deal with a brain drain (emigration of highly-qualified, editor’s note), and thus potential growth hampered,” said Teodorovici. He wants to change that.
loss of expertise due to emigration
in Common with other so-called sending countries, he wants to think about how the employees can be brought back. It is not just the loss of Knowledge due to the emigration of highly-qualified professionals. It is not only Doctors, teachers and IT specialists, but also to craftsmen, service staff, and simple workers. “Structural reforms will help,” says Austria’s Finance Minister, Hartwig Löger.
“The mobility of the workforce, a brain drain, warned Romania’s Finance Minister, Eugen Teodorovici.
Young people see no future
Romania is not the only country that gets to feel the disadvantages of free movement of workers. Especially young people in Greece, for example, or in Portugal see in your home also have no future and try your luck somewhere else: in the West and in the North of the EU. This is not without consequences. The Vice-President of the European Commission, Valdis Dombrovskis: “In the host countries, some see mobility as a cause for unfair competition pushes the wages down and the availability and quality of public services diminishes.”
Weaker countries at a disadvantage
Although a lot of money flows back into the sending countries, because the migrated workers support their families in the old country financially. Below the line, but the experts leads to rush to the decline in countries such as Romania, significant night. “The EU Commission recommends, therefore, to reduce taxes on labor significantly, even for low wages and not to distribute the tax burden in a way that hampers economic growth,” said Dombrovskis.
