In this context, Alabali-Radivan referred to “skilled workers who are happy to come and stay with us”. Addressing the critics from the Union faction, she added: “If we don’t do that, we’ll sell off our economic power and our prosperity, dear Union.” The SPD politician alluded to the head of the CSU state group, Alexander Dobrindt. “Bargaining German citizenship does not promote integration, but has the exact opposite purpose and will trigger additional pull effects in illegal migration,” he told the “Bild” newspaper.
CDU leader Friedrich Merz also confirmed his rejection of Faeser’s naturalization plans on Sunday evening. In the ARD program “Report from Berlin” he spoke out against dual citizenship and warned against immigration into the social systems. German citizenship is “something very valuable”. Dual citizenship should “not be the rule, but the exception,” said the CDU politician.
Merz did not accept the labor market argument. Immigration into the labor market has already been made possible in recent years. What needs to be prevented is “immigration into the social systems”. When it comes to the planned shorter deadlines for naturalization, the CDU leader also referred to other countries. They also made “much higher demands on naturalization and immigration”. Merz sees no need for a reform of citizenship law. He described the existing citizenship law as “very modern”.
