At the Kehl train station, Germans and French pull together to help job seekers on both sides of the border. We can now look back on ten years of joint work.
Strasbourg (dpa/lsw) – The first German-French service for cross-border job placement in Kehl, Baden, is celebrating its tenth anniversary. Those responsible from both countries are meeting today (10.30 a.m.) in the neighboring city of Strasbourg, as the employment agency announced. According to this, EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and the labor ministers from Paris and Berlin, Olivier Dussopt and Hubertus Heil (SPD), are connected via video.
In the past ten years, almost 10,000 interested parties have been advised in the agency with employees from Germany and France. Almost 4000 people found work on both sides of the Rhine with the help of the facility.
Von der Leyen signed the contract when it was founded as Federal Minister of Labor at the time. The facility at Kehl station was established to mark the 50th anniversary of Franco-German friendship.
