In Orsay Hospital in Paris, half the cardiologists got their diploma outside the EU. Albanian Arteniza Beqiraj is one of them. She’s paid €1,800 monthly. In France, doctors with non-EU diplomas have their salaries capped & their career paths blocked. - ThreadSky

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lighthousereports.com • 94 days ago

In Orsay Hospital in Paris, half the cardiologists got their diploma outside the EU. Albanian Arteniza Beqiraj is one of them. She’s paid €1,800 monthly. In France, doctors with non-EU diplomas have their salaries capped & their career paths blocked.

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lighthousereports.com•94 days ago

Doctors like Arteniza have been protesting to demand better working conditions & President Macron’s promised change. But it’s too little too late for many. Tunisian Dr Mohammed Lahyeni chose to leave France for Germany where he is now paid equally.

lighthousereports.com•94 days ago

In France, immigrants are nearly twice as likely to be unemployed than natives. Brainwaste costs the country an estimated €7.3bn annually. IT engineer Anass El Doukhan, lawyer Nagla Mohamed Ali & tech entrepreneur Hamze Ghalebi have all faced a maze of bureaucratic hurdles

lighthousereports.com•94 days ago

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lighthousereports.com•94 days ago

Check out the rest of our groundbreaking brain waste series published with @financialtimes.com @elpais.com @unbiasthenews.bsky.social France3tv @publico.pt https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/brain-waste/ & get a full breakdown of how we did it https://www.lighthousereports.com/methodology/brain_waste/

lighthousereports.com•61 days ago

A deep dive into Italy, one of the countries with the highest rates of brain waste in Europe by WIRED Italy and @unbiasthenews.bsky.social explores why educated migrants are much more likely than natives to be working in jobs far below their qualifications...

lighthousereports.com•61 days ago

...working fewer hours than they would like or unemployed than almost any other country in Europe.

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