Scholz Courts Needed Workers Abroad as Anti-Migrant Parties Rise
- EU’s top economy needs 400,000 annual net increase in migrants
- Scholz faces election in a year with far-right AfD on the rise
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Ricardo Soares da Silva has no regrets about swapping his native Brazil for hilly southern Germany and a higher-paying job as an electrical technician.
But the 36-year-old from Porto Alegre is also aware of an increasingly tense atmosphere for foreigners after a jump in asylum seekers in Europe’s largest economy propelled an anti-migrant surge led by the far-right Alternative for Germany.