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Not Made For Walking; Why won't Europeans move to where the jobs are? That reluctance is one of the biggest barriers to a more dynamic EU.
Byline: Stefan Theil (With Tracy McNicoll in Paris, Marie Valla and William Underhill in London and Jacopo Barigazzi in Milan)
There's a scene in Michael Moore's "Roger & Me," the 1989 documentary featuring GM factory closings, in which a laid-off worker in depressed Flint, Michigan, can't leave town. All the moving companies and truck rentals are booked for six months, it seems, as a daily trek of job-seekers set out for brighter prospects in California or Texas.
Compare that with Europe. Two weeks ago GM announced a fresh round of layoffs at its struggling German plants. But how many of those unlucky 10,000 workers will be loading moving vans in Bochum ...
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