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Efforts to build world economy limited by lack of languages

Irishtimes.com, Monday March 7th 2016

Conference told thousands of vacancies not being filled by Irish because of lack of German and other languages

Ireland’s efforts to build a globalised economy are unsustainable in the long run, given its failed foreign language education policy, particularly in German, according to Irish business leaders and academics.

Heads of multinational companies operating in Ireland say they cannot understand why they are forced to go outside the state to recruit the thousands of multilingual staff they need.

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