The German parliament has passed legislation to open up new opportunities for job seekers from countries outside the EU and for many refugees who are already in the country. The new immigration law reform is intended to attract more non-EU citizens to migrate to Germany for employment and has finally been approved by the Bundestag. Plans to lessen the level of German language proficiency required, according to Andrea Lindholz of the CSU, would simply promote unskilled labor. Lindholz argued that the new law would do nothing to address what she called the main problem: Bureaucratic bottlenecks such as over-long procedures at foreign consulates. “What you have put together in a 100-page draft law could be summed up in one sentence,” he said.

Source: Nigerian Tribune June 27, 2023 14:10 UTC