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Europe faces labor shortages as population ages

DAVOS, Switzerland: On a continent accustomed to headlines about chronically high unemployment and fearful of immigrants, European politicians face an unusual task: finding workers for their companies.

And executives gathered in Davos are urging a politically unpopular solution: let skilled immigrants fill labor shortages that will continue to grow as the work force in Europe declines sharply amid a slowing in birth rates and a rise in the number of retirees.

"The story of the future is labor shortages," said Kenneth Rogoff, a professor at Harvard and former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund. The problem, he added, is that "Europe has an immediate demographic problem and is very hostile to immigration."

The population of Europe is projected to slide over coming decades, and in some countries the decline will be dramatic: Germany, currently the largest country in the 27-member European Union, with over 80 million inhabitants, could find itself with just 25 million people at the end of the century, some estimates suggest.

According to Nicholas Eberstadt, a demographer at the American Enterprise Institute, 2006 was probably the first year when deaths exceeded births in Western Europe. Only allowing a greater inflow of immigrants, experts said, would keep the population growing.

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Notice how the call is not for Native Europeans to start making babies, the call goes out to import more immigrants and in Europe's case these immigrants will be majority moslem...


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