When Merkel meets Obama: The new integration slogan of the Federal government

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When Merkel meets Obama: The new integration slogan of the Federal government

Parallel to the adoption of the integration act, the Federal government has launched a website. The title for the project is a combination of two of the most famous Slogans of the recent past.

The inauguration of Barack Obama as President of the United States of America in 2008, a sentence: “Yes, we can!” The election campaign Slogan was the answer of the then 46-Year-old on the major problems of world politics. As Germany is one of these challenges – the refugee crisis – in the past year, Angela Merkel and the Slogan, so to speak. “We can do this,” said the Chancellor, while hundreds of thousands arrived as refugees or on the way. Merkel repeated the phrase again and again. And again he was challenged.

That the Federal government might not move despite all the criticism of the statement of the theorem, you probably with the Heading evidence of you applying your policy of integration: “Germany can do it.” An eponymous Website has been put online, after the Bundestag had adopted the new integration act and the Federal Council approved.

Abdul and Volker

What is at stake in the project, summarizes a Video which has made government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Twitter online – and the show can work, “such as the Integration of refugees”.

The one and a half minute Film tells the stories of Abdul Amir and Volker Patzwaldt. One of them, a 21-year-old Syrian who came in via the Balkan route to Germany and want to study in his new home dentistry. The other, a 56-year-old employee of the Federal Agency for Technical relief, has met in the Hessian small town four home Abdul Amir as well as thousands of other refugees. You he wanted to give it a new home, explains Patzwaldt.

Projects and the law will be presented

On the site projects will be listed that have the aim of promoting Integration. In addition, it explains the core elements of the integration act.

With the law, the so-called priority will be exposed to audit for three years. Previously, refugees were allowed to only accept a Job if no suitable candidate from Germany or the EU. Asylum seekers may be employed in the future as temporary workers. Also, the Federal government wants to create 100,000 in mini-jobs “in and around reception centres”.

Integration courses are intended for all protection seekers with perspective to Remain compulsory, and asylum seekers may in the future be a resident assigned to them.

Decline in refugee numbers

Overall, the beginning for the year, according to the Ministry of the interior of the approximately 220,000 refugees to Germany, much less than in the previous year. A prediction on the total number for 2016, wanted to the Federal Minister of the interior Thomas de Maizière at the
Presentation of the latest Figures, the development was “very unstable”.

bor/sti (kna, dpa)


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