爱思英语编者按：在德国各界的压力下，德国失业者被要求做“1欧元”工作。扫大街，种树，清洗墙上涂鸦……这就是德国失业者的新工作。

Jobless workers in Germany are now required to accept jobs paying just 1 euro an hour. Those include jobs such as sweeping the streets, planting trees and removing graffiti and so on.

The German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported Tuesday that German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle issued a proposal that calls for all beneficiaries of unemployment compensation to accept jobs offered by the Federal Labor Agency in Germany, or their unemployment compensation would be reduced.

After a blizzard hit Germany a few weeks ago, Westerwelle also mobilized unemployment recipients to shovel snow.

Besides, Hannelore Kraft, a politician with the German Social Democratic Party, advanced a suggestion to send jobless people to read books or sweep streets for senior tenants at nursing homes. These jobs are actually the "1 euro" jobs provided by the German government for those who have been out of work for a long time and offer only 1 euro per hour or about 200 euros a month.更多信息请访问：http://www.engbus.cn/

The jobs mainly include some public service activities and urban construction work, and workers are required to sit through three to four weeks of training in advance.

According to the report, at first the "1 euro" job was voluntary, but many lazy unemployed workers were unwilling to take those jobs. So the number of beneficiaries of unemployment compensation gradually increased to 6.7 million, creating a heavy burden on the German fiscal system.

Therefore, the German government is making it compulsory for beneficiaries of unemployment compensation, especially younger people, to accept the "1 euro" jobs.

Refusing to do so would cost them unemployment compensation.

在德国各界的压力下，德国失业者被要求做“1欧元”工作。扫大街，种树，清洗墙上涂鸦……这就是德国失业者的新工作。

据德国《南德意志报》16日报道，德国外长韦斯特韦勒近日建议，失业金领取者必须接受劳动局分配的工作，否则将减少其失业金。几周前暴风雪席卷德国时，他曾建议那些失业救济金领取者去铲雪。

而社民党政治家克拉夫特女士也提出，让常年失业者为养老院的老年人朗读书籍或去扫大街。这些工作其实就是德国政府专门为长期失业人员提供的“1欧元”工作，即每小时工资只有1欧元，一个月也只有200欧元。工作内容主要是公益性活动或为城市建设出力，工作前需要进行三四周的培训。

报道称，“1欧元”工作原本是自愿行为，但许多懒惰的失业者不愿参与这些工作。德国靠领取失业救济金生活的人越来越多，已达670万，这给德国财政带来很大负担。为此，德国政府打算强制所有领取失业救济金的人特别是年轻的失业者承担“1欧元” 工作，否则将无法拿到失业金。