Germany/ Conservatives abandon opposition to draft ‘qualified immigration’ law. Increasing the immigration of qualified workers from outside the European Union to Germany is something that the country’s business sphere has been dreaming of since the 1990s. However, up until now, Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party has always found reasons to block any law that could create a broad and permanent immigration system. Recently, the CDU refused to discuss a bill on the issue (Fachkräfteeinwanderungsgesetz) that was being pushed by Germany’s social-democrat party (SPD), while another bill on expelling failed asylum seeks was unable to achieve adoption. However, the latter bill has been adopted and on Thursday 9 May the conservatives lowered their blockade. Finally, deputies in the Bundestag were able to debate in a first reading of the draft bill adopted by the cabinet the end of 2018 (see article n°10948). The SPD are aiming for a definitive vote on the bill before summer 2019. Horst Seehofer, Germany’s interior minister, said: “The future of the German economy, the prosperity and the stability of the social protection system, in my opinion, depends on how we manage to maintain the base of qualified personnel in companies.
News update as of May 10, 2019
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