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Germany to fast-track foreign airport workers to ease travel chaos

FILE PHOTO: German Labour Minister Hubertus Heil in Berlin, Germany, September 11, 2018. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke/File Photo

The German government will fast-track work permits and visas for several thousand foreign airport workers, mainly from Turkey, to help to ease summer travel chaos that has frustrated holidaymakers, German ministers said on Wednesday.

Travellers across Europe are facing especially long queues at airports this summer partly because there are not enough staff to handle the rebound in demand after COVID-19 lockdowns.

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