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to prolong boom Spanish car plants look beyond low labor costs

to prolong boom Spanish car plants look beyond low labor costs

While much of the European car industry is struggling, Spanish assembly plants are raising production, winning new models and creating jobs despite years of recession.

BMW will recruit trainees from Spain’s young jobless pool

BMW is recruiting a small number of unemployed young Spaniards to work in Germany in a program to “give something back” to its customer countries.

Twenty-five workers aged 18 to 25 will be trained for a year at the carmaker’s headquarters in Munich, BMW personnel chief Milagros Caina-Andree told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “They should be immersed in German culture, possibly live with a BMW host family and work in development, sales, marketing or another area. After that, these young people can go back home or stay here,” she said.