Germany’s plan to attract more immigrants – Corriere.it

BERLIN — Our aim is to make the Germany the Most modern immigration country in Europesays Hubertus Heil, German Labor Minister.

The federal government’s draft law for open the labor market to non-EU citizens already ready. It should be approved by the Bundestag in 2023 and could have visible results as early as 2025.

In Germany lack of skilled manpower: the German Chamber of Commerce talks about a hole for 260,000 people a yearbut the Federal Employment Agency estimates that the jobs not covered are as many as 400,000.

Faced with this growing demographic deficit, aggravated by the large number of baby boomers (the generation born between 1950 and 1964) retiring, they find themselves other European countries as well, with which Germany competes in the search for the best and brightestthe best and the smartest.

We must really want skilled labor immigration, because the arrival of the right personnel will ensure the welfare of Germanyexplains Heil, a member of the SPD, adding that it is a reform overdue, because in coalition with the CDU in the governments of Angela Merkel such a step was unthinkable.

Heil’s plan involves opening up the German labor market to non-EU citizens by offering them a residence permit if they are able to prove professional training (although a formal certificate will not be mandatory) and at least two years of work experience.

There knowledge of the German language, a frequency or a connection of friendship or kinship with Germany and the young ageelements of advantage for the candidates will be considered.

Which they will no longer have to have an employment contract already in their pocketwhich can instead be granted by a company only after no German has answered the call.

In any case, the immigrant employed cannot have a salary higher than that of his German colleagues.

The German embassies abroad and immigration offices in Germany will become Welcome Centerswhich they should make unbureaucratically Immigration is easier with quick visas.

However, the Chamber of Commerce insists that the law should actually open up the labor market to unskilled people as well, who declare themselves ready to follow vocational training courses after arriving in Germany. Furthermore, he calls for the abolishment of the salary ceiling with respect to employed Germans, as it is discriminatory.

Corollary of the plan will also be there reform of the right of citizenshiprecently presented by the Minister of the Interior, Nancy Faeser, who wants to offer the German citizenship after 5 years of residence to immigrants who do not depend on state subsidies (8 years are now required) to intensify the sense of belonging to the country and achieve better integration. A facilitation, i.e. the granting of citizenship even without knowledge of the language, would be introduced for migrants who arrived in the 1960s and 1970s, better known as Gastarbeiterwho, in the words of the minister, have done a lot for the well-being of Germany and who have never been granted a real integration programme.

The Christian-Democratic opposition, but also some MPs from the FDP, a party which is also part of the government majority, attack the project to the max, anticipating obscure scenarios of mass migrations in the social system and warning of a sweet life guaranteed by the so-called social hammock. In reality, the head of the CDU himself, Friedrich Merz, was no longer able to deny the shortage of qualified personnel and announced that it was open to consideration of the proposals.