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E5 - Migration: The Power of Optimism

Andreas Becker | Nicolas Martin
December 18, 2025

Despite the problems we discussed in Delayland, people from many countries want to live and work in Germany. From nurses to IT specialists, skilled workers are needed, but bureaucracy is slowing things down. Write to: Delayland@dw.com

https://p.dw.com/p/55W6Y

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Delayland is a DW-production, researched, written and produced by Andreas Becker and Nicolas Martin


Editor: Zulfikar Abbany
Audio editing and mixing: Simon Berkhahn 
Sound design: Warner Poland 
Cover Art: Nora Charlotte Tomm and Anke Jordan 

 

Feedback? Get in touch at delayland@dw.com

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Nicolas Martin Editor with a focus on the global economy, globalization and organized crime.
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Delayland – Germany and the missing magic

Why don’t things run like they used to anymore in Germany, once dubbed an "economic miracle”? And how are other places getting things right? From the makers of Cannabis Cowboys, Delayland launched on November 27.

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