German ForMin: Romanians, among best integrated employees in Germany's labour market

German Foreign Affairs Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Monday said that, according to a "representative" study conducted in Germany, Romanians are among the best integrated employees in the labour market in this country.

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"A very surprising study has been recently released in Germany. The figures of this study ? it is a very large, representative study ? prove that the Romanians in Germany are among those employees who are best integrated in the labour market of Germany. This confirms a matter which we have already known before the study was released, when we said that Germany benefits in its turn from the labour of those citizens who work in Germany. They deserve our entire respect," Steinmeier said in Bucharest, in a joint press conference with Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu.

Steinmeier also said that in Germany there are approximately 350,000 Romanians and admitted that there have been "not very positive" stories about them.

"I have always suspected that many things circulated in the public area are fed by preconceived ideas. I was confirmed this thing, that there have been such ungrounded preconceived ideas," Steinmeier added. AGERPRES