% R1 e$ ?5 ?# i/ ~& L# s. u/ F 许多证据表明，德国对医疗、学术研究和工程领域的人才越来越没有吸引力。离开德国的人列举的原因包括：失业严重、劳动力市场僵化、官僚主义严重、税收高和经济增长缓慢。4 m" v) n, r6 A) q8 m/ V+ a
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在托梅看来，问题的根源要深得多。他说：“德国人太自满了，不希望改变任何事情。什么都要争个没完没了，到头来也找不到任何解决方案。”! z6 F& v7 p# J/ P' n7 N9 ~' f1 e
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托梅和他的妻子认为，尽管到加拿大要一切从头开始，但他们相信孩子们会有更好的前途。 : `, j' P) w; q$ I* l; I, ~# L# j( W
为增强德国的吸引力，默克尔政府正实行数项计划，包括创建更多有竞争力的大学以及吸引离开德国的研究人员回国等。! |' X1 G8 o. C3 ~
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: j* @) }$ s( a0 ^# U+ Q( IESCHBORN, Germany, Feb. 3 — Benedikt Thoma recalls the moment he began to think seriously about leaving Germany. It was in 2004, at a New Year’s Day reception in nearby Frankfurt, and the guest speaker, a prominent politician, was lamenting the fact that every year thousands of educated Germans turn their backs on their homeland. 8 C- d' ]3 y8 B% q5 Y2 l0 a' b8 w T. o S1 `% K% }
“That struck me like a bolt of lightning,” said Mr. Thoma, 44, an engineer then running his family’s elevator company. “I asked myself, ‘Why should I stay here when the future is brighter someplace else?’ ” . P3 I/ W9 x' q1 G* D% |0 C3 g' z : Y/ T1 x+ z. R3 \' ?( vIn December, as his work with the company became an intolerable grind because of labor disputes, Mr. Thoma quit and made plans to move to Canada. In its wide-open spaces he hopes to find the future that he says is dwindling at home. As soon as he lands a job, Mr. Thoma, his wife, Petra, and their two teenage sons will join the ranks of Germany’s emigrants.$ v: v9 f. f. n! k- `1 l6 I
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There has been a steady exodus over the years, but it has recently become Topic A in a land already saddled with one of the most rapidly aging and shrinking populations of any Western nation. With evidence that more professionals are leaving now than in past years, politicians and business executives warn about the loss of their country’s best and brightest.4 h& g/ x' d1 z' o! ^+ m# L% V2 W/ c* j
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Among the more popular programs on German television is “Goodbye Deutschland!: The Emigrants,” a 12-part series chronicling several families who have forsaken Germany for South Africa or southern Spain. j; V- s, s/ }( H. Q : @ Z& u' N, F+ H; PThe trigger for this latest bout of angst was the release last fall of new government statistics showing that 144,800 Germans emigrated in 2005, up from 109,500 in 2001. At the same time, only 128,100 Germans returned, a decline of nearly 50,000 from the year before. That made it the first year in nearly four decades that more people left than came home. 7 j9 E& _! _; K. O( j: k0 h ' [- x# D' n! ]6 s! D% I作者: 猪想容 时间: 2007-2-10 11:03
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