Minister: Romania's unused EU funds should go to Germany for immigrant integration

The EU funds Romania and Bulgaria do not use should be re-directed to Germany and other countries who face the ‘migration of the poor’, said the Labor Minister in North Rhine and Westphalia, Guntram Schneider, for the international media, quoted by Mediafax. The funds would be used for integration, said the minister, who also said the Western European countries should benefit from immigration, as half the immigrants are well qualified. “Without the doctors and medical staff in South-Eastern Europe, many clinics in Northern North Rhine and Westphalia would not be able to run,” said Schneider. The other half, the poor, will continue to come, as long as the minimum wage in Romania stays at EUR 1 an hour, he added. editor@romania-insider.com