Europe | Immigration into Germany

More needed, fewer wanted

The economy would welcome more foreign workers. Not so the citizens

Jun 21st 2001|berlin

DO THE Germans need any more to put them off the foreigners in their midst? International organised crime, Jürgen Storbeck, director of Europol, told a recent conference in Berlin, is no longer lurking at Western Europe's gates; it is already well dug in. The Balkans—over 1m of whose citizens live in Germany—are now a big source of organised crime, he said, with gangs from the area using migrants, legal or illegal, to help them. And increasingly, he said, these gangs are led by young, well-educated men, the sort you find in Germany “among second- or third-generation Turks and Albanians”.

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “More needed, fewer wanted”