Four years after recording a record number of refugees experts to be accounted for, the German integration and immigration policy. You see Germany as an immigration country. And look with concern to the EU.
Praise for Germany and reminders – but concerns have been expressed about the European Union. The expert Council of German foundations for Integration and Migration (SVR) has the integration work in Germany since the recording of hundreds of thousands of refugees issued in 2015, good grades. This applies to all levels, Federal, state and local governments, but also for the still remarkable commitment of the civil society, of many individuals.
“The Integration of refugees is done a lot, but still much to be done”, they account for the current state and speak of a “balancing act” between immigration control and integration support. This is always the reminder: still more Integration to do. At the same time, convinced that Germany would be prepared on a comparable further crisis well, better than 2015.
Merkel’s “legendary set”
Chancellor Merkel is called in the roughly 220-page “review of the integration and migration policy of recent years” a single Time. The head of government cited the “now-legendary phrase ‘We can do this'”, with which you can have in the autumn of 2015 “as much applause as criticism” to be harvested.
But, overall, they speak for the political Act of an “unprecedented dynamism” in the area of legislation, as the Chairman of the Council, Economist Thomas Bauer says. And you can see no essential difference between the Federal cabinets “Merkel three” (2013-early 2018) and “Merkel four” (since March 2018), but to see the incision and the difference in the year 2015 and then the following variety of Actions.
Expert Council of German foundations on Integration and Migration: praise and a warning for Germany
With a view to the migration to Germany, the experts point out that only in the years 2015 and 2016, more refugees than citizens of the EU, after Germany had come. Since then, the influx of people from EU countries was in each case greater. The yoke also to the need for skilled workers, there is in many areas and regions in Germany. However, the German policy had to take the poverty immigration from the EU, and to ensure integration and educational services.
The Western Balkans
Strongly, the scientists emphasize the Opening of the German labour market for foreign workers. The applicable example for the so-called Western Balkans-scheme from 2015, the labour migrants from Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Albania, Bosnia and Northern Macedonia, the possibility of a work visa is intended to facilitate. In return these countries were to so-called safe third countries, asylum applications reduced. Germany, according to the report, need in the face of demographic change, such work forces. But it must be increased – for example, Embassy personnel, and the Integration of this labour.
Professionals in Germany are urgently looking for
…and immigration law
Current example – the official title – skilled workers-immigration law, the Bundestag debated on Thursday in the first reading. For the first time in the Merkel-time the government is speaking in a legislative title is not “immigration”, “immigration”, says the Bernese sociologist Christian Joppke. “This is a paradigm shift,” for he would “grade 1A”. Because the talk of “immigration” has always been a compromise formula. Now Germany is officially the “country of immigration”: “This is tremendous.”
The experts designate as the special challenges in the area of the crime due to immigrants but also to immigrants -must continue to be explored, as well as the further Integration and education. They refer particularly to the target groups of adolescents and women. With a view to women there had to be better offers childcare in integration courses, or even apprenticeships, part-time, as it was in the case of the German mothers.
Anchor the center in the Bavarian town of Schweinfurt
Reminder to Serenity
Noteworthy is the unanimity of the expert Council. Although it is usual. But the ten scientists – five women, five men – at the launch of the report, the sovereignty, and to respond personally and positioned and to be a smooth-ironed and Talk. The panel with the bulky name was founded in 2008 by eight foundations, as the “independent scientific panel” to analyze issues around Integration and Migration “sober” and to give policy suggestions for political Action.
A proposal for the detailed presentation is, the more Calmness and objectivity. The experts speak of “superheated discourse” and “political polemic”. Much, says the Konstanz Jurist Daniel Thym, in hindsight, “only half as dramatic” as in the political dispute. Pessimistic forecasts have not been met. “What has surprised us is actually ourselves: That there is indeed such a thing as Balance,” says the Vice-President of the Council, the Nuremberg-based political scientist Petra Bendel. This applies even for the evaluation of the – in Germany-controversial – anchor centers, where refugees remain up for distribution in municipalities, or to deportation to their country of origin and of asylum to undergo the procedure.
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Situation in Europe: “a disaster”
This is particularly true for the views of Europe, the experts Yes warning voice clearer and more critical than the situation in Germany. The situation in Europe, says political scientist Bendel, was “a disaster”. There is a “real Blockade”, an “absolute standstill” and a “protection lottery”. EU member States applied the same Standards in very different ways.
And because of the German Council of economic experts is very concrete: After the European elections in Germany and France, should bring “a new momentum in the debate, and, where appropriate, with a two-speed Europe”. It must, as Daniel Thym, also at the European level, the Juxtaposition of control and humanity will be possible: “we need Europe.”