Ricarda Lang attacks the CDU/CSU: "Inhuman campaign for citizenship"
Created: 2022-12-06 04:52
By: Niklas Noack
Ricarda Lang (Greens) sharply criticizes the CDU/CSU.
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The traffic light government wants to simplify the integration of skilled workers, which parts of the Union see critically.
Green leader Ricarda Lang therefore launched an all-out attack on the CDU/CSU.
Berlin/Stuttgart - There is a shortage of skilled workers in Germany.
According to a calculation by the Institute for Labor Market and Occupational Research (IAB), the Federal Republic would have seven million fewer workers by 2035 if the immigration of skilled workers were to be stopped.
In order to prevent this, you have to "attract and integrate immigrants", reports
BW24
.
That is why the government made up of SPD, Greens and FDP wants to remove bureaucratic hurdles and advertise for more skilled workers abroad.
Among other things, some people should be able to work in Germany without their qualifications having been recognised.
To do this, however, they must have completed a two-year vocational training course in their home country.
An employment contract is also required.
Ricarda Lang denies the economic competence of the CDU/CSU
Without an employment contract, entry could be possible with the help of a so-called “chance card”.
It is about a points system for those willing to immigrate based on the Canadian model.
Criteria for this would be, for example, professional experience, age or language skills.
With the “opportunity card” the local skilled workers are likely to go looking for work.
For this option, however, the interested party would have to prove its good "potential", as stated in the key points paper of the traffic light coalition, which was decided on Wednesday (November 30th).
At the beginning of the new year, the Bundestag will deal with it.
In the Union, the ideas for simplifying the integration of skilled workers were only partially well received.
CSU man Alexander Dobrindt expressed concern in an interview with the
picture
that citizenship would be "sold off".
Words that may have upset Green leader Ricarda Lang.
On Instagram she wrote: "It's exciting that in this situation the Union in particular - i.e. the party that likes to pride itself on economic competence - is focusing on culture wars instead of economic reality.
This shows that the Union has nothing to offer when it comes to economic issues.”
Friedrich Merz signals willingness to negotiate on the subject of immigration law
Lang went on to say that over the past 16 years, the Union has ensured “that we are dependent on Russian gas, that there is a lack of skilled workers and that renewables are not expanded enough.
And they have no answers when it comes to how we can locate green industry here and position our economy well in times of geopolitical competition.
They want to cover up this material bareness with an inhuman citizenship campaign.”
Union parliamentary group leader Friedrich Merz meanwhile signaled his willingness to negotiate and made it clear that "a further modernization of immigration law and citizenship law in the Federal Republic of Germany" was not to be closed.
However, the CDU/CSU attaches importance "that the granting of citizenship takes place at the end of an integration process and not at the beginning."
Lang and Merz only recently clashed when it came to the "social tourism" allegation against Ukrainian refugees, which
BW24
also reported on.