Scholz gives positive news to those who want to gain German citizenship

Chancellor Olaf Scholz in the weekly internet format “Compact” spoke of the best „rules for German citizenship“.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed that Germany needs better regulation of the citizenship law. Scholz said, that women and men and children who have come to Germany in recent decades have greatly contributed to the economy being so powerful that it is now”. Some of these people live around “from a very, very long time” in Germany and already have children and grandchildren here. So it's a very good “ ”, if they decide to apply for taking German citizenship.

Reforming the law on granting citizenship is planned by the ruling coalition among Social Democrats, ecologists and liberal Democrats in the coalition deal. On this basis Interior Minister Nancy Fyser said on Friday (25.11) the reform of the citizenship law. Foreigners and foreigners living in Germany in the future may receive a German passport after five years of residence in the country. The family members of the Gastarbeiter generation are expected to ease the barriers to citizenship. In addition, opportunities to maintain certain citizenship will expand.

The reform envisioned for citizenship was praised by the president of the German Institute for Economic Studies in Berlin, DIW, Marcel Fratzcher. Germany's “problem with qualified labour forces will be further exacerbated by demographics and competitions for attracting smarter heads, unless politics acts more decisively than it is now.” A clear perspective on citizenship is an important element, to make Germany more attractive to qualified employees, Fratzcher told the newspaper “Handelsblat”.

While the Christian Democrat-Christian union in opposition sharply criticised the plan to reform this law. Parliamentary group spokesman to the Christian group in Bhavari Alexander Dobrendt drew attention that with this German substate it is “evaluating”. According to him, “The citizenship rate does not promote integration, but otherwise, by adding to the tempting effects of illegal migration. ”

The chairman of the Turkish community in Germany, Gökay Sofuoglu, welcomed this planned reform. The German citizenship right does not respond to modern-day reality; it needs to be reformed that basically”, he told the editorial media network Editorionsnetzwerk Deutschland. / DW/