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...crackdowns merely send refugees underground, forcing them to take ever-deadlier risks to get in. Easing entry requirements makes good economic sense, since Europe needs 75 million new workers over the next 50 years to replenish its aging population; but try telling that to downsized factory workers in Stuttgart or Glasgow. And diversity doesn't sell in the E.U.: just 5 million of its 350 million citizens live outside their native country. The Continent's long-standing zero immigration policy seems premised on nothing so much as a hope that the problem will go away: if you build a Fortress...
...crackdowns merely send refugees underground, forcing them to take ever-deadlier risks to get in. Easing entry requirements makes good economic sense, since Europe needs 75 million new workers over the next 50 years to replenish its aging population; but try telling that to downsized factory workers in Stuttgart or Glasgow. And diversity doesn't sell in the E.U.: just 5 million of its 350 million citizens live outside their native country. The Continent's long-standing ?zero immigration? policy seems premised on nothing so much as a hope that the problem will go away: if you build a Fortress...
...when Holden was forced to idle 20,000 workers at seven plants, Schrempp was blindsided--and then enraged. He got the news from auto analysts after the fact. The extent of the losses too had been belied by Holden's rosy forecasts. A Stuttgart insider acknowledges, "Our tools are excellent, but they are only as good as the information we were receiving...
...year. Schrempp may not have agreed with that move, but he didn't stop it either. Schrempp let Eaton choose Holden as Stallkamp's successor. "This was an American management team with a real track record, who we thought knew what they were doing," says a Schrempp lieutenant in Stuttgart...
Sales began declining in April. As the year wore on and Stuttgart put increasing pressure on Chrysler to deliver more savings, the decision-making process in Auburn Hills began to falter. Product programs, critical to Chrysler's past success, were held up. Per-vehicle costs began to rise, in some cases as much...