EU may need rules to stop doctors emigrating - German minister


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  • Sunday, 13 Jan 2019

FILE PHOTO: German Health Minister Jens Spahn speaks at a Christian Democratic Union party congress in Hamburg, Germany, December 7, 2018. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo

VIENNA (Reuters) - The European Union should consider regulating to stop member states from poaching each other's doctors and other professionals, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said.

Spahn, a conservative heavyweight among Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats who recently lost a contest to become the party's leader, described a knock-on effect of countries attracting doctors from neighbouring countries, as is the case with Switzerland taking in German physicians.

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