Germany’s government on Monday defended a plan to make it easier for people to apply for citizenship, countering complaints from within the ruling coalition and the opposition that it might encourage illegal immigration.
The government has said it wants to boost immigration and training to tackle a skills shortage weighing on Europe’s largest economy at a time of weakening growth, and when an aging population is piling pressure on the public pension system.— shows the government wants to do that in part by significantly reducing the income threshold for migration and introducing a points system.
“And this should be completely independent of origin, skin color or religious affiliation,” he added. The draft legislation will be discussed by cabinet on Wednesday, Mr. Scholz said, after which it must be put to lawmakers in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
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