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Albanians join regional race to learn German as escape from everyday problems

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TIRANA, Oct. 9 – More and more Albanians have turned to studying German language in the past couple of years, joining a Western Balkan trend of preparing to integrate into the German labor market and escaping high unemployment and low-income jobs in their home countries. The rising interest to learn German comes amid a declining wave of Albanian asylum-seekers in Germany, Europe’s largest economy, which has made it clear only legal migration though employment contracts is the way to make it in Germany for both qualified and non-qualified workers. The younger generation is also getting more interested in the German…

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