Germany’s Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck said on Wednesday that there are likely many more job vacancies at businesses in the country than shown in official figures. Estimates put the number of vacant positions at just under 2 million, Habeck told parliament in Berlin on Wednesday, even though official figures record only about 700,000 vacancies. But Habeck said many companies do not report vacant jobs to government agencies, and instead are just “tacitly accepting them.” German businesses and government leaders have complained of a serious shortage of skilled workers, which Habeck again descri…