Germany is becoming an increasingly attractive location for jobseekers from Southern Europe, particularly to unemployed Greeks and Spaniards flocking north in recent months in search of work, a study released on Thursday by Germany's Federal Employment Agency (BA) has found.
According to the study, in late May, there was a significantly larger number of people with a Greek, Spanish, Portuguese or Italian passports working in Germany than there was a year ago. The figure climbed to 452,000, or a year-on-year increase of more than 6.5 percent, which is considerably above average. In that same time period, the total labor force only increased by some 1.6 percent.
