Immigration

Richer Poles bad news for Denmark facing labour shortages

Polish workers build Copenhagen's new Cityringen metro line, while Danish farmers struggle to produce enough of country's famous bacon without help of Romanians

bloomberg

30.01.2018

With living standards now rising in eastern Europe, many of its natives are thinking about going home. That spells trouble for Denmark, which is already desperately short of labour.

Despite a progressive tightening of immigration rules by the centre-right government of prime minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, foreign workers have continued to trickle in and now account for nearly a tenth of the Scandinavian country's labour force, with eastern Europeans making up a sizable chunk of that, according to estimates by Nordea Bank, the region's largest lender.