In line with its programme for government, Germany's ruling coalition has started to unveil the broad outlines of its reforms to the right of asylum and economic immigration. The government's efforts to modernise will aim to make the framework more humane and less bureaucratic, and should lead to the elimination of absurd, even inhumane provisions, and most importantly help attract more foreign candidates to a labour market that is increasingly grappling with major shortages of skilled workers in certain sectors. Germany's employment and home affairs ministers ultimately plan to introduce a points-based selection system in the near future.
The modernisation of immigration policy promised by the new so-called “tricolour” coalition (Social Democrats, Greens and Liberals) started this month with the adoption of a first law on the right of asylum by the cabinet 6 July. This week, interior minister Nancy Faeser and employment minister Hubertus Heil also revealed – in an article published in the daily newspaper Handelsblatt – the main measures that will be included in the law on economic immigration set to be unveiled in the autumn.
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