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Video: Hungary & Romania Recruit In Asia To Fill Labour Shortage

• 31 Oct 2019 7:55 AM

Sporting yellow helmets, some 30 men are busy on a construction site south of Bucharest, exchanging a few words in Vietnamese.

Faced with a growing labour shortage, which threatens their economies, Romania and Hungary alike are courting Asian workers, belying Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban's anti-immigration rhetoric.

Source:
AFP news agency

 

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