The Federal Agency for Employment is not worried about the debate on immigrants from Romania and Bulgaria. Last year, people from these two countries came to Germany as guest workers in the rural economy and in other areas that desperately needed employees such as health, geriatrics and gastronomy.
"Most Bulgarians and Romanians in Germany are migrants looking for work, not poverty immigrants," said Herbert Brücker from the Institute for Employment Research, in an interview with Deutsche Welle. Martin Wansleben, director of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry warned even on German economic problems caused by the current immigration debate on poverty. "Immigration should not have a bad image because of heated political discussions," he said.