Germany should deregulate its labour market and create more lower-paid jobs to help refugees find work and integrate better into society, the head of Europe's largest aerospace group Airbus said on Sunday. Germany expects at least 800,000 migrants to arrive this year alone, almost 1 percent of the population, many of them fleeing conflicts in Syria and elsewhere. Politicians and economists have warned the influx will push up unemployment in Europe's biggest economy.
"We must have the courage for deregulation in the way that so far we know from the United States," Tom Enders, a German, wrote in a commentary for the Sueddeutsche newspaper.
"That seems hard to imagine. But there, you see a successful integration of migrants who are allowed to work soon after they arrive," he wrote.