Back around eight years ago....I watched some German public forum show (I'll admit....maybe 60 percent of the time...they do present a good discussion and sometimes a audience member asks a 1,000 Euro question).
In this forum...migration and immigration was the key topic, and someone stood to ask...why is it that migrants usually ONLY want to migrate toward the UK or Germany?
It was a legit question I thought, and no one could give much of an answer....so they just moved on.
What people have quietly said since then....both the UK and Germany offer better 'allowances', benefits, and more likely to accept migrants.
The fact that the EU has never established a 'standard'? Well....yeah, I've often wondered about that.
The essential problem here? Well....in the mind of a typical Greek or Portuguese political figure....they are not about to offer a German 'standard' for a migration situation. The German political figure? He's not about to accept a low-ball Greek figure for the migrant.
It's the same essential argument when you talk over qualifications....where the Poles or Spanish folks would readily accept people with nursing backgrounds or engineering degrees....but they really don't want to bring in 15,000 folks who only have a background in running a fruit-carts (in the old country).
The EU folks trying to re-balance this discussion? Good luck on that.
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The fact that English is the international language is why the UK is the target for many, especially from the old commonwealth countries, where the English stole the wealth.
Germany is seen as the next best option for actually having a future.
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