Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet approved a draft law overhauling the nation’s citizenship rules that would allow people to hold multiple passports and is designed to facilitate the integration of foreigners into Europe’s biggest economy.
Some 14% of the population — or 12 million people — don’t hold German citizenship, and almost half have lived in the country for at least ten years, according to interior ministry figures. Naturalization in Germany lags well behind the European Union average, with a rate of 1.1% compared with 2% for the wider bloc, in part because people have generally been required to give up their previous citizenship to get a German passport.
“We are in the middle of a global competition for the best minds,” Interior Minister Nancy Faeser was quoted as saying Wednesday in an interview with media group RND. According to the draft law approved Wednesday, a citizenship application will be possible after five years instead of the current eight and that could be cut to three years for people who are deemed especially well integrated.
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