The government says most Romanians and Bulgarians come legally to work or study, but a minority pretend to be self-employed to get supplementary benefits, or claim child benefits, with no real chance or intention of getting a job. We want to make it clear that immigrants are still welcome in Germany, Krings said in an interview. And when it comes to immigrants, we dont want to distinguish between good and bad countries of origin of immigrants, but between sufficient and insufficient qualifications of the immigrants. Late last year, the mayors of 16 cities such as Cologne, Hanover and Dortmund made a public plea for help in coping with unemployed immigrants from Eastern Europe, many of whom are from the Roma minority. If 80 percent of immigrants from one country are well integrated, that is not an argument for accepting the other 20 percent that are not fulfilling the criteria of the European legal regime for free movement, said Krings.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:22:03 +0000
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