Author: Himalaya Post

PARIS – French hotel and restaurant owners are lobbying the government to regularise more illegal migrants in order to fill 100,000 jobs for which they have found no French takers. “We’re facing a huge shortage in our sector,” Roland Heguy, president of the hotel industry body UMIH, told AFP. “Companies are finding no one, which is why we want to facilitate the integration of refugees in our businesses,” he said. France, like many developed economies, is struggling to fill low-paid, manual jobs. Turnover is high in the hospitality sector, where kitchen work and cleaning jobs are seen as particularly unattractive by many. At a meeting with government in mid-July, industry representatives called for measures to make it easier to hire migrants. In an interview Wednesday, Heguy said the industry was in a position “to issue 100,000 job contracts straight away”, half of them for permanent positions and half for seasonal jobs. France received a record 100,000 asylum requests in 2017, up 17 percent from the year before. Under French law, refugees can work once they get their papers but asylum-seekers must wait nine months after filing their claim for refugee status before taking up a job. An immigration bill passed by parliament last week — but which President Emmanuel Macron has yet to sign into law — cuts the waiting time to six months. The CGT, France’s biggest trade...

Washington D.C. [U.S.A.] –  United States President Donald Trump has shared a picture of him with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker after a joint press conference, where both joined hands to eliminate tariffs. In the picture, Trump and Juncker can be seen sharing a hug, meanwhile, president of the European Commission kissing the US President’s cheek. “Obviously the European Union, as represented by @JunckerEU and the United States, as represented by yours truly, love each other!” Trump captioned the photo. Trump shared the picture after duo delivered a joint statement on Wednesday, and annouced that they have reached a deal to begin solve a dispute over tariffs. President Trump called the meeting a ‘very big day for free and fair trade’. The meeting turned out to be fruitful since the elimination of tariffs would reduce the growing tension between EU and the USA. In another tweet, the US President said, “European Union representatives told me that they would start buying soybeans from our great farmers immediately. Also, they will be buying vast amounts of LNG!” Earlier this year, the Trump administration slapped tariffs on steel and aluminium imports from several U.S. allies, including the EU. Trump also threatened to impose a 20 per cent tariff on all European automobile imports....