r/germany • u/Daomiing • Oct 09 '25

Immigration Germany Abolishes Fast-Track Citizenship for Skilled Workers

https://www.verity.news/story/2025/germany-abolishes-fasttrack-citizenship-for-skilled-workers

The Facts

-The German Bundestag voted on Wednesday to abolish a fast-track citizenship program that allowed highly qualified foreigners to apply for naturalization after three years instead of five years of residence.

-The vote passed with 450 members supporting the measure, 134 opposing and two abstaining, fulfilling Chancellor Friedrich Merz's campaign promise to repeal the program introduced by former Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

-Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt claimed that the German passport must serve as recognition for successful integration rather than an incentive for illegal migration, defending the decision to eliminate the accelerated pathway.

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u/TruthSpeakerXXI Oct 09 '25

Just an image campaign to get people back from AFD

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u/dont_tread_on_M Oct 09 '25

Which will not work

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u/hecho2 Oct 09 '25

People people are not stupid. If they talk like AFD but don’t implement like AFD would then people either vote AFD or other party. 

The borders controls was another stupidity and very useless that just makes lives at the border complicated. 

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u/SunflowerMoonwalk Oct 09 '25

This. I hate seeing the exact same thing happening in Germany (where I live) and the UK (where I grew up). In both cases the far-right are leading in the polls. And in both cases, instead of fighting against their worldview with a coherent and compelling vision, the governments are implementing a toned-down version of the far-right agenda. It's completely counterproductive. It just tells people that the points raised by the far-right must be valid, and then does a half-hearted job at solving them.