Eastern german city of chicago one thing that hasnt changed there is the construction of cars a tradition dating back to 9904 its where the iconic truck was produced in the days of communist east germany. Took over the company in 1900 modernize the plant now its really engineering the business one small to make electric cars joining a revolution of a different type the green push towards a mobility something good for the planet this time as opposed to the trouble which is germans waited years to get their hands on and despite conjuring up feelings of nostalgia really did stick. This 2 stroke engine belongs to a church and its a car you would have seen all over the east german roads 30 years ago and generic mission set trickles it as a very practical vehicle when so good you could repair pretty much everything yourself from a v. Belt semi commission coils to spark plugs you could access everything and fix it fast this was the 1st car i had as a student. These days you can find the socalled tragedies in a museum here in saco common you factoring has a century long history. Is employed by a company that to mums flexibility he sees to that i must have had 10 different jobs hes always been happy to go where hes needed and i started in the paint shop and then i was working in sales and Customer Service i worked in assembly for a short time to ive been in a number of different locations including south africa that was a very interesting time on that side. But the biggest change is yet to come the plan to inspect how its being converted into an electric car factory. And from what we would hear here and speak out transformation means that every vokes wagon employee and saxony has to rescale and learn how to do other jobs every worker has to be retrained sometimes multiple times. But is that a good thing. Other employees think its good that we offer job security not just until today and tomorrow but also for the coming years one of. The jobs are being guaranteed despite the fact that electric vehicles are easy and to build thats because v. W. Is increasing output it wants to produce some 333000. 00 vehicles a year. The investment is good news for the city of el which has seen a decline in both manufacturing and population since the fall of the wool. The average age of the population in former east germany is very high young people are emigrating apart from the Auto Industry not many jobs of state and speak out were glad the jobs we have here are secure with. But the situation is very different to supply as this plant south of charleston produces and a minion gearboxes for a range of common but until now only for Combustion Engines. Which is a sort of these days were a little concerned about how things are progressing in the car industry the fear is that what were producing here will no longer be needed and its always us it looks like the Combustion Engine is on its way out. And theyre trying to push electric engines through by hook or by crook theyre not thinking about the losses. At the morning meeting theres a sense of looming crisis the diesel emissions scandal has led to a swift decline in orders and in the long term customers are likely to switch to electric mobility. So what then. The plants post says demand for gearbox parts could continue for example in hybrid vehicles which run on both diesel and electric power hes hoping for a long transition period. The grid is your hybrid cars will take over a large share of the market in the next 10 years its an opportunity for us because the portion of aluminum in the casting that is in the vehicle itself is going to rise everyone is fighting for orders the bigger car makers have an advantage its harder for the smaller casting works we think the market will consolidate in the next few years. The big fear here is that there could be job losses as there well after the fall of the wool the car industry employs some 40000 people in saxony alone the mood is more upbeat at the largest employer here especially in the i. T. Department which is looking for new recruits as Technology Advances so driving cars could become commonplace. Michelle said his son is doing his training here. I will play a huge role in the future and my son can be part of it that makes me proud so cars have a bright future. Along with Environmental Protection yes it moves through. Despite not being a very environmentally friendly process the production of electric vehicles is government subsidized its hope theyll improve quality in cities still grappling with the fallout of the diesel emissions scandal v. W. Has an ambitious target. One percent at the moment. The clear goal weve set for ourselves is 25 percent electric vehicles by 2025 at the latest if not earlier. Series production has just begun. 1500 of the id 3 models are to roll off the factory line here every day. Up to 2000000 east germans pack their gear and headed west on to the wall came down mostly women but how many of them made it into boardrooms of companies like. B. M. W. And is now on the board of. The journey. And i found out in this exclusive interview she found it difficult leaving. The wall. And its. Cross to visit my parents in. The mass migration among. The border crossings. What was it like to live in the. Most. 20. But we were happy. And then suddenly everything changed. Almost. It also meant shortly after the union of germany my husband lost his job and i flowed more than 50 applications to a lot of companies on. An east German Council to say and it turned out that nothing had a long term perspective. You didnt know at the time which industries with a wife and which companies would so why in east germany we had extremely high unemployment rates in some cities above 20 percent and. D. Of west germany. What was it like being in the struggling you know western company then well of course my accent at the beginning was an opportunity for colleagues to laugh about but. At the end of the day my my education in germany was excellent i had nothing. Where where i felt. I couldnt do. It was more the private life that was very difficult. To lets take a walk through the east. You grew up with probably drove a poor kid and then suddenly you ended up with b. M. W. That must have been a shock it took i guess 6 years before i had my 1st b. M. W. When i came to. My 1st car there was a course 10 years old when i boarded and that was already a for me i have another off. But i was always thrilled by car. Even as a kid even as a kid i had more matchbox then. I have 2 older brothers so that there was no option so the male dominated car industry wasnt wasnt really a challenge for. I wasnt afraid of it i i knew. I have to speak the language of the other so i know more about the horse powers than about the colors of the car so to say it was so fascinating to see that every car on the production line is different not only by color but also by interior and. In germany you had 3 weeks to wear the same time in the same color of if the same options was produced and then it was changed and you could also not choose which options were in the car that you got delivered so one thing that doesnt seem to have changed is that there are so few women working in your area and so few women in leadership positions force one is working very hard on diversity and inclusion in the whole focus one group we do have a chief Human Resource officer at bentley and no just recently also i was starting out he is a woman that was appointed so im not the only one anymore and im glad for that and i hope that this development continues. So would you say youve profited from a major crisis of a system twice now the fall of the wall and then hes ok. I think its fair to say that yes. I would probably not be in the position that i would now follow these new. I do think that. The changes in the system that the wall came down and. Pushed my career and in 2 instances. And how are you dealing with you know theres still a lot to do. When i joined for. General in 2016 i i said to my colleagues it will take 8 to 10 years to clean up have you been able to benefit from your fair. Push towards immobility for example i mean it was quite late 1st one was also in the past in many instances often a fast follower but yes i think. Awareness of Climate Change and gate where 2 factors that helped us to is thanks and i was targeted towards the mobility. So whats the future of mobility by 2040 we will have a lot of i dont know most cars driving around and what about women in leadership positions i hope that doesnt take till 2000 for the until we have reached. Parity. In the workforce you think its possible i think its possible. Vanna told me east and west no longer play a role in her daily life but one survey shows more than half of people in the former east say they feel like 2nd class citizens is a look at some of the developments since reunification. Than. The fall of the berlin wall 30 years ago an extraordinary moment in time. West germany and east germany kept apart for decades could finally come together again it was nothing short of a love story. But then the cleanup in the east began rundown factories the legacy of state owned Industries Many of them worthless or at best uncompetitive not like in the west. If the west was at 100 percent the east was well way below 100 percent. In 1900 economic output per capita in the east was 43 percent of the value in western germany by 2018 it had risen to 75 percent the gap in pay has also shrunk but only somewhat average annual wages in the east are still nearly 5000. 00 euros lower than in the west its not altogether surprising that 57 percent of People Living in eastern germany say they feel like 2nd class citizens. But as we saw the east is catching up well. G. D. P. Growth last year was 1. 4 percent in the west and 1. 6 percent in the east. Wages grew over the same period 3 percent in the west and 3. 6 percent in the east. Eventually economic output in the east is set to catch up. But at the current rate its likely to take quite a long time. So its still set to take a long time and its already been the year is surprising then that many east germans have run out of patience and left to seek a better life in western germany the resulting brain drain and loss of young people is having a dramatic effect in some areas entire regions in the east are on the verge of dying out and that the fact that the population is aging in both parts of the country the future does not look good so whats urgently needed is a fresh influx of people communities in eastern germany or working hard to attract new residents like our reporter to do milan who wondered whether she could be one of those people can she be one of. You know you can sound from them but. If i would you move you. Can tell you what kind of like you have here is it depends whats important for you. Move 100 kilometers away from berlin to a place that could use more people if they find it on google maps next to it is an issue here the district of such whos 40 percent of its working age population in the next 15 years demographic change has made its mark. Walk down the street and youll see how many shops are closed but thats due to old age the confines successors to take over the shops the center will die out one day. But that needs to be countered by getting young people to come here or even better get the people who used to live here to return. Represents the district in parliament hes from the far right anti migrant alternative for Germany Party its becoming more popular here newcomers might not be. The standard to be that you cretinous to ensure a livelihood for its own young people. After unification many Young Workers moved from east to west as the old economic order crumbled this conveyor bridge is the symbol of that time it was used in the late night coal mining that powered east germany. One could argue that this is a region that is still trying to find itself in years after. This prince was shut down and soon after reunification many mines here closed and thousands lost their jobs now in germany plans to phase out cold completely but how much coal mining shaped the region is easy for outsiders to forget. When where i live it is 125 kilometers in that direction apparently now that doesnt sound of a. Far but from up here certainly feels that way. Back on the ground im on my way to my next stop finster vida its 16000 strong population is stable people have recently stopped leaving but not many are coming. Back. So finding an apartment promises to be easy here as in many places in former east germany many apartment blocks were torn down to reduce oversupply as the population shrank. Until it is a 42 square meter apartment. Meter was way above the rent is 223. 00 euro. 20 years ago we did a lot of refurbishing but the rants only rose to a moderate extent what we needed to have Affordable Housing and it wouldnt have made sense to have high rents only to be left with empty apartments who claimed a man had not her in and one home thats half of what tenants pay on average in berlin there are plans to improve rail connections between the 2 cities so i could keep a foothold in boats. In the future youll be able to get from the fenced of the main station we just have the one to berlin main station in an hour and a half so i think thats a clear argument when youre considering whether to stay in berlin or move to the surrounding region that were all tool. And there are some who are from the region and who have decided to move back there is still a rare breed but i do need one of them ts to prince for a coffee. When you come with a certain level of experience from elsewhere in germany and you think it can work when you come back to these outdated structures you know how antiquated it all is to realize how difficult it is to get a foothold again sometimes i feel like the wall is still up its kind of hard. Starting an organic cornflakes business had him facing stifling bureaucracy and a resistance to new ideas but hes not alone a network of young entrepreneurs active in the region meets regularly for neutral support or to practice pitching into space for those willing to write off their hometowns as places to work and in that. I admire their optimism and their loyalty to a place many prefer to leave for good ill be thinking about that on my way back to berlin. So the train seems to run a lot less frequently time looking at about an hour until the next one comes so i got some time no its. Probably not enough to figure out whether id move here it turns out that learning where region is headed and whether you can go with it is a complicated journey and not one to make just wants well while this show is all about transformation weve been talking about pulling down walls not putting them up the fact is much of the globe is in the grip of protectionism and nationalism right now that includes britain and brags that as a result bankers have been leaving for other european capitals companies have been shifting their u. K. Offices to the e. U. To keep business running smoothly but not everyones heading in the one direction we need some doctors brushing up on their english skills ready to apply for work in britain for them you know going breaks that saga is not at the target. Canis reversed a cheer is a venezuelan who used to live in spain from run a sleep disorder clinic but hes now living in leicester england where hes about to start a new life as a general practitioner or g. P. I was going. On. My future im not really the model. For medical dog of. Professional development and i am getting in here in england which is completely different from one before in the brain or been holed up at the prospect of bricks it doesnt scare him is initial contract is for 3 years now he wants to bring his family over as soon as possible before heading to leicester he did an english course. In the polish capital warsaw the students are all doctors intending to work in the u. K. Among them is kareena but yahoo from romania. The course financed by the u. K. S National Health Service the n. H. S. Is designed for g. P. s they rehearsed conversations with patients and practice balancing empathy and efficiency under time pressure. The doctors can expect to see quite a few patients every day. Kareena but she is very aware of the dramatic changes the u. K. Is facing. Cared a little bit about the new. A little bit about the bracks it also but i assume that also the britons are a little bit concerned about the situation. But for now shes concentrating on passing her english exams here in poland shes been studying 10 hours a day for 3 months now. How soon she and her daughter be off to england shes heard how expensive rents are in much of the u. K. And knows that will be her 1st challenge. Well for her for the beginning i hope that that i will find a place to settle. Rent. Affordable prices. Carlos reverse edge of idea has already found a home in leicester hes settling in and says he feels good there be n. H. S. Health services paid for him to take driving lessons. While driving on the other side of a role. Why then for me because. I have been. Driving for. Summer. And now i have to go in the other. The way the Health System works in britain is also new to him. Hes going to be working under supervision for the 1st 10 months then there will be another language test after that he can apply for a license to Practice Medicine in the u. K. Then he can treat patients independently or of course are always under supervision and also always teaching all the people. Part of what i have been doing all my life and what im going to do the rest of my life what im. Carlos reversed actually but here is in his early fiftys and back in training but he doesnt mind despite being up even in his life hes happy to have found challenging new work in his profession. Perhaps up evil is a fact of life even if its not always as dramatic as the follow. The berlin wall change can be challenging but it nearly always offers new opportunities thats it for made join us again next month and then has all one face be a competent. I was issued when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room. It was hard i was fair. I even got white hairs that. The german language meant not off the face of its me and little bunch need to instruct lets say you want to know their story. Writing and rely. Mation for margaret. I dont think that that well i guess sometimes i am but i stand up in which the reason germany thinks deep into the german culture of looking at the stereotypes the question that you think the future of the country that im not having. Kiev needed seems perfect for this drama play out to eat us its all about a new time a show join me for me to jam and sunday to be a. Post. Some more good 5 keys to seek for food. Keep clean to prevent contamination. For a draw and cook foods to avoid cross contamination. Cook thoroughly chilled microorganisms. Keep food safe temperatures of the cold cold to prevent bacterial growth. Use safe water and sea role materials to avoid kentucky. 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