German minister seeking nurses from the Balkans, Merkel could take over

Merkel today declared that she would not run for the fifth term as Chancellor either.

As minister, Spahn in July of this year had indicated that Germany wants to recruit specialists specifically from Southeast Europe to fight the lack of human resources in nursing.

For “Bild am Sonntag” he had said that the greatest potential of young professionals in this area is in Kosovo and Albania.

There, the nursing education is often better than we think of”, he said. However, according to him, there is a visa problem, Time.net broadcasts. This worries me. These trained professionals must often wait up to 10 months for a visa to Germany. We need to accelerate this process”.

Spahn is also known as one of Merkel's fiercest critics within the CDU.