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FDP politician Joachim Stamp
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A personnel issue with potential for conflict in the traffic light coalition has been resolved: the FDP politician Joachim Stamp is to become the federal government's special representative for migration.
Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser announced this in the »Welt am Sonntag«.
"I am very pleased that I was able to win one of the most experienced minds for this," said the SPD politician.
Stamp, currently still FDP state chairman in North Rhine-Westphalia, will take up his new post at the beginning of the year.
"Bild" and "The Pioneer" had previously reported.
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The post of special representative was previously vacant.
The FDP had repeatedly urged Faeser to appoint a special representative in recent months.
Finally, the coalition agreement stipulated that the federal government should give the federal states more support in the event of deportations.
Stamp, 52, was deputy head of government in North Rhine-Westphalia until June.
He is attributed to the left-liberal wing of the party.
He earned a reputation across party lines because he proceeded consistently with deportations and showed empathy towards refugees.
»More regular and less irregular migration«
"More regular and less irregular migration is the goal we want to achieve in the next few years," Stamp told Welt am Sonntag.
"Germany depends on controlled immigration if we want to maintain our prosperity." Migration makes a society more lively and innovative.
»But immigration from other cultures also poses challenges that we need to talk about openly.
We need the host society to be willing to integrate, but also those who immigrate.
Our legal system is the basis.«
Stamp criticized that in the past migration had often taken place in a disorderly manner.
»Many people who were actually looking for work have sought asylum law due to a lack of regular routes into the German labor market.«
The FDP parliamentary group leader in the Bundestag, Christian Dürr, welcomed the decision: "I am sure that he will make an important contribution to the reorientation of our immigration policy," said Dürr.
According to the coalition agreement, the newly created position provides for the "drafting of migration agreements" with the countries of origin of rejected asylum seekers.
The tasks include cooperation on the return of rejected asylum seekers, visa facilitation or qualification measures for the German labor market.
"We need a general switch in migration policy: with procedures in which entry requirements are checked in advance and people come to us according to clear criteria," said Faeser of the "Welt am Sonntag".
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