The traffic light coalition wants to get started in a few days.
The coalition agreement between the SPD, Greens and FDP promises progress.
Also for asylum seekers.
Munich - The rethinking begins in the first sentence, so it is almost incidental. The aim is to create a new beginning “that does justice to a modern country of immigration”, says the beginning of the chapter “Integration, Migration, Refugee”. Immigration country. In reality, Germany * has long been a state that attracts people from distant countries. But no government has formulated this as clearly as the traffic light coalition * around the future Chancellor Olaf Scholz *.
It's not much more than half a dozen of 177 pages on which the coalition agreement * deals with who should come into the country, under what conditions they can stay and what their future looks like.
But the passages mark a radical rethink.
"The traffic light puts an end to the life lie that Germany is not a country of immigration," says FDP * domestic politician Konstantin Kuhle.
The Bavarian SPD * MP Uli Grötsch thinks: "It is high time we said it so clearly."
Traffic light coalition agreement: Work ban for asylum seekers is to be abolished - subject to specifications
In fact, many hurdles are lowered in the coalition agreement, from right of residence to citizenship. Work bans for asylum seekers are to be abolished and family reunification to be extended to all refugees. According to the ideas of the traffic light parties SPD, FDP and Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen *, naturalization should be possible after five years, and in the case of special integration efforts after three years. That is a clear shortening. It was the first red-green federal government * that reduced the minimum stay before naturalization from 15 to eight years over 20 years ago. Six with great ambition for integration.
Children born in Germany to foreign parents should in future receive a German passport when they are born, provided that one of the parents has been lawfully living in the country for five years.
Multiple citizenships should be expressly possible.
This is a sharp departure from the previous practice, which bore the Union's signature.
Traffic light coalition agreement: Migration is "currently a delicate matter"
Much is new, some is highly complex and everything is very sensitive. The entire topic of migration is "currently a delicate matter," says Kuhle, especially with a view to the situation on the Polish-Belarusian border *. But immigration is also in Germany's interest, for example when recruiting skilled workers. The planned points system, for example, with which applicants from abroad are to be classified, is based heavily on the much-praised Canadian model.
The traffic light also breaks new ground when it comes to the complicated question of tolerance.
Instead of the so-called chain toleration of people who cannot be deported, she relies on a “right of opportunity to stay”.
Anyone who has lived in Germany for five years, has not committed a criminal offense and is committed to democracy should receive a one-year residence permit on probation.
During this time he should meet the requirements for a right to stay, above all securing a livelihood.
Well-integrated young people should be given the right to stay after three years.
CSU criticism of Ampel's migration plans - "Germany is noticeably more attractive for refugees"
Criticism comes from the state government. Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU *) complains that higher benefits for asylum seekers will "make Germany noticeably more attractive for refugees". The numbers were already increasing. At the same time, the measures to combat illegal migration and the consistent enforcement of the obligation to leave the country are "unfortunately very pale and vague".
The coalition agreement speaks of a "repatriation offensive" which is intended to facilitate the departure and especially the deportation of criminals.
Kuhle refers to North Rhine-Westphalia, from where most of the deportations currently originate.
Integration minister there is his party friend Joachim Stamp, who led the negotiations on migration in Berlin.
"We enable people to be admitted, but we also ask something of them," explains Kuhle.
“Above all, compliance with the law and securing one's livelihood.” SPD man Grötsch also emphasizes that respect for the law is “a central pillar”.
He doesn't just speak as a politician.
Before he became an MP he was a police officer.
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