Hungary calls for foreign nationals to bridge labour gap despite hardline immigration policies

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In this edition of Witness, Euronews reporters Valerie Gauriat and Zoltan Siposhegyi speak with foreign nationals in Hungary, hired to make up for the shortage of labourers across the country. Click on the video above to watch their report.

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00:32 - This place is very nice.

00:58 It had, you know, the convenience for all of us.

01:03 You know, they provide us a good home.

01:07 (speaking in foreign language)

01:13 - I want to introduce you to my friend.

01:17 This is my friend.

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01:29 - It's a very convenient to work here

01:34 because you can take all the salary by yourself.

01:39 I love the people here in Hungary

01:42 because it's always smiling.

01:45 Yeah.

01:46 And the boss always say, "Good job."

01:49 - Good job.

01:50 - Breakfast.

01:51 Say thank you always.

01:52 - Yeah, they say thank you.

01:54 I don't think that we do feel like we're discriminated,

01:59 but you know, we feel like we're welcomed

02:02 and home here in Hungary.

02:04 So far, it's good.

02:06 And we have a working visa for St. John's.

02:10 So, you know, like I can travel around Europe.

02:14 I'm very, very happy.

02:16 Yeah.

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02:26, I'm very happy.

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02:36 - Hi, nice to meet you.

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07:15 - The strategy was obviously on the short term

07:32 to culminate this difficulty of finding labor

07:36 and this turnover that was pretty persistent.

07:39 Also to in the long run stabilize the workforce

07:41 because with a shortage of manpower brings a lot of overtime

07:45 and that creates difficult, more difficult work conditions.

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08:38 - Even though it's working at here a little bit hard,

08:42 I think it's good because everyone at here always help me,

08:46 always teach me everything.

08:49 They support us like career development

08:53 and then I can, they provide us also with Hungarian language

08:58 and then I learn about the leadership

09:02 and I think a lot of opportunity that I will get

09:05 in the Prismian, especially in the Hungary.

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09:13 - I think this is the future.

09:21 This was supposed to be a pilot project

09:23 which has the dream to expand to other countries.

09:26 We are already present with Indonesians

09:29 also in Czech Republic, also in Romania

09:32 but we are trying to do the same with our consortiums

09:35 and bring employees that are already trained

09:38 to integrate them in our company,

09:40 not only in Hungary but certainly throughout Europe.

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