Posted on 04/15/2016 7:36:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The shift in European attitudes toward the flood of largely Muslim immigrants seeking new homes continues this week. After months of insisting on an open door, humanitarian policy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is once again revising her position and bowing to pressure from her citizens. The latest move on the part of the government is to insist that there will be no free riders on the welfare state train, and any new arrivals seeking to make Germany their home are going to have to start acting a bit more like Germans. This will include learning to speak the language of their new homeland and actively pursuing government provided job training so they can seek gainful employment. (Yahoo News)
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition government agreed on Thursday to require migrants granted residence rights to show willingness to integrate by learning German and seeking work or see their benefits cut.
Ending months of disagreement, Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), their conservative Bavarian CSU allies and the Social Democrats (SPD) hammered out a deal in the early morning hours for post-war Germany’s first law on integrating immigrants.
They also worked out new counter-terrorism measures and agreed to relax rules giving European Union citizens priority in employment so migrants can enter the job market more easily.
The deal capped months of disagreement about how to handle over a million migrants and refugees who poured into Germany last year. Those fleeing war in Syria and Iraq have the best chances of staying while economic migrants may be sent home.
As with most compromises in the world of politics, this isn’t going to make everyone happy. In particular, the provision to weaken requirements for Germans to have first priority for hiring will probably just stir more sentiment against the migrants and that’s on top of continued concerns over terrorist incidents which all too often seem to include fighters using the refugee stream as a way to get into European nations.
Yet again, this story is worth following because it serves as something of a microcosm for the debate we’re currently having in the United States on the same subject. It may also provide a bit of foreshadowing. Whether you’re looking at issues of national security and worries over terrorists arriving in your home town or competition for jobs and already strained welfare resources, there really isn’t much separating Germany from America. The problems are just magnified for the Germans because it’s a much smaller nation – both physically and in population – dealing with a disproportionately larger flood of migrants. Also, their physical proximity to the nexus of the terrorist threat and the lack of an ocean around the nation to serve as a barrier compounds their woes.
Angela Merkel is waking up to all of these realities and struggling to hold on to the political power she’s enjoyed for a very long time. There’s probably a lesson there for American leaders who will slowly but surely have to answer the same questions for their voters in the months and years to come.
A member of my extended family married a German girl he met in while stationed there. In order to get his legal residence and work permit he was required to prove basic fluency in German.
“...so they can seek gainful employment.”
This has been a major mis-calculation.
Yeah right. Good luck with the faux tough act Merkel. The camel’s nose is already under the tent and you’re going down in history as the a-hole who turned Germany into a 3rd world hellhole. Until you pull out the bats, mace, and pepper spray or HKs you’re not going to make even a slight dent in the problem you created because someone stuffed your pockets....
Germany is as good as gone.
Self inflicted suicide.
Ah , the Terrorist attacks will start much sooner
The last thing a Muslim should be doing is acting like us Kafirs or trying to make a Kafir society a better place.
Allah don't like us, and Muhammad set the example on how to treat us.
IMHO Muslims should be following Muhammad's examples, and those of Osama bin Laden and ISIS and the Wahabbis.
It is naive and dangerous for us to expect Muslims to obey man made Kafir laws, and become a contributing member of our infidel societies.
And yes I know about those so-called Muslims who have been contributors.
I call them useful Idiots , Infidel collaborators and Muslim heretics.
I wish they would just get out of Islam, instead of trying to hang on to Islam with their convenient rationalizations of Islam. -Tom
I married a Polish lass and for my citizenship I needed to have a B1 level of the language - and that makes sense — it would be impossible to get along here otherwise
Yeah, sure, right. The only provisions of this “agreement” that will be enforced are the pro-migrant ones. All the others will be waived or ignored. Merkel will say anything to hold on to power. But when it comes to actions, it will be the same old song and dance.
Just a show for the sheeple. Must apply, must pursue, must speak. When? How long do they have to comply and what is the penalty for non-compliance? Likely forever and nothing respectively to the questions.
The war is lost here and there. We survivors are like shipwreck victims treading water int he middle of the Pacific Ocean. It is only a matter of time before the sharks get us or we just sink and die. Either way, the outcome is inevitable and the die is cast.
Better to be a taker than a maker if you have that option? You can continue the struggle holding out hope I guess. Either way, it sucks. The dream of freedom and prosperity without being pilloried by taxes is dead. Sure you can prevail but you will keep less and less for working more and more while the slackers punish you more and do even less.
Yeah, Merkel. Let us know how that works out.
[[Germany tells migrants to learn German, get a job or lose benefits]]
Germany tells migrants to learn German, get a job or lose benefits
Migrants curl their upper lip
Angela Merkel wets her pants and apologizes profusely and turns around and prosecutes her fellow germans for demanding that she show some spine against migrants
Merkel telling people in a no-go area what to do.
If you can prove your parent’s German citizenship was wrongly revoked, you can reclaim the citizenship with no language or residence requirements. My sister did it but I could not on a technicality. The shame is that I speak some German but my sister doesn’t.
please...
It’s a good step, actually. Now, about those 600,000 immigrants that have been “lost”...
At times, I agree. Then I meet people who speak MAgyar or Kartveli.....
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