Germany struggles to adapt to immigrant influx

[European Knight]

The Turkish are now an established community in Germany

"Everyone's moving to Germany."

So says Govan, a thin, bearded French jazz musician from Lyon whom I meet in a German language class for people recently arrived in Berlin.

"In one month," he says, "I met lot of people from everywhere."

The faces around the table are young, the accents mainly European. They tell a story about how the demography of this country is changing fast.

Germany is now the world's second most popular destination - after the US - for immigrants. And they are arriving in the hundreds of thousands.

Net migration to Germany has not been this high for 20 years, and even the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) describes it as a boom. In 2012, 400,000 so-called "permanent migrants" arrived here.

They are people who have the right to stay for more than a year. That represents an increase of 38% on the year before.

They are coming from Eastern Europe, but also from the countries of the southern Eurozone, lured by Germany's stronger economy and jobs market.

And they are being welcomed with open arms - by the government at least - because Germany has a significant skills gap, and a worryingly low birth rate.

"Immigrants are on average younger and the German population is on average older, so immigrants are welcome," says Dr Ingrid Tucci, from the German Institute for Economic Research.

"It's important to attract students and highly qualified people. So the government is making it easier for them, trying to invest and put a culture of welcome in place."

Leaders of the anti-euro AfD want tighter controls on immigration

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29686248

[Ctwentysevenj]

In the future, they will have to change the name of the country to Germanstan!

[Mortimer]

seems as if most immigrants are europeans (eastern/not counting gypsies and southern)

[JoeyGee8688]

"Immigrants are on average younger and the German population is on average older, so immigrants are welcome," says Dr Ingrid Tucci, from the German Institute for Economic Research.

"It's important to attract students and highly qualified people. So the government is making it easier for them, trying to invest and put a culture of welcome in place."

OK... but these are German problems, problems amongst the German people. It is illogical to fix German problems with non-German remedies, unless you want the result to be a non-German entity. The problem is low birth rates and poor education. It is not impossible for German people to have children, nor is it impossible for them to be "students and highly qualified people"; thus, it is not necessary that these problems be ameliorated by non-Germans people. Why, however, are the (true) Germans not helping themselves?

[Anglojew]

I blame the Nazis

[Aviator]

I blame the Nazis

Me too. If they won, none of this would be happening.

Plus our medical knowledge and engineering feats would be exponentially greater than what they are now..

[Anglojew]

Me too. If they won, none of this would be happening.

Plus our medical knowledge and engineering feats would be exponentially greater than what they are now..

Because they existed they have made normal patriotism demonised, and the vaccuum created by their defeat has been filled with extreme-lefty ideology, as the new norm.

[Borna]

I blame every brainwashed German who keeps silent, and do nothing.

[Austo]

even the rightes party of germany only wants tighter controls of immigations. how about immigration stop? returning immigrants who are not from war areas?

[Leto]

even the rightes party of germany only wants tighter controls of immigations. how about immigration stop? returning immigrants who are not from war areas?

The economy will collapse overnight. 36% of children have foreign roots (many are still European, but not ethnically German). Just consider this figure.