The SPD, the Greens and the Left in Berlin want to naturalize significantly more people than before in the coming years.
This was announced by representatives of the three parties on Monday in the course of their coalition negotiations.
So far, around 7,000 people from abroad have received German citizenship in the capital every year, said SPD state chairwoman Franziska Giffey.
Berlin - “From our point of view, that is not enough.” As a long-term goal, she named around 20,000 naturalizations per year.
According to Giffeys, this should be achieved by accelerating, optimizing and digitizing what is currently often a very long process.
"For me and for us it is a very important focus in the next legislature that we tackle the issue of naturalization more intensely, that we organize it better and that we organize it more centrally." At the moment, naturalizations are handled very differently in the twelve districts .
dpa
