The Germans are running out. They will soon be in the minority.
In their own country.
Germany weighs allowing foreign citizens into the army – A senior lawmaker has told DW a potential scheme could include people not just from current EU members, but also from candidate countries, and provide a quicker path to German citizenship.
You know. That tired old German ritual of “fighting the Nazis of 1933 today?”
Certainly is a convenient backdrop if you’re a government quietly approving a law that would ease dual citizenship in the background. The public debate of which would otherwise be quite controversial. It almost seems as if these protests are being used as a distraction. It almost seems as if the whole thing was planned.
Germany’s parliament approves easing dual citizenship – German lawmakers have voted in favor of changing the law, which would open up the possibility of dual citizenship to swaths of the population. The bill would also reduce the time needed to qualify for naturalization.
Great idea!
But I saw a report last night about who’s already going to be put on the list: Unwed and unemployed mothers living off the German welfare system, for example.
We’re from the government and we’re here to help! Some call it “Social Democracy.”
Germany is moving forward with a plan to ease its citizenship rules as it seeks to attract workers – Applicants will IN MOST CASES be required to prove that they can support themselves and their family without receiving state benefits. The new legislation will specify that “antisemitic, racist or other inhumanly motivated actions” rule out naturalization.
Speak a little German, have a job, pass a simple test (33 questions) and pay $275 to become a German citizen?
Hell, I could do that. Except pay the $275, of course. Are they nuts?
German citizenship: Record number of naturalizations – More people have applied for and been granted German nationality than at any time in the past 20 years. This is good news as the government wants to attract qualified professionals to the labor market.
A record 168,545 applicants with 171 different nationalities received German citizenship in 2022. That was 28% more than in the previous year, the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden reported this week.
That means… The hell if I know.
Other than maybe meaning German citizenship will soon be selling like heiße Kuchen (hotcakes). Of course, it could also mean “lets let our own German identity roll over and die.”
‘Hybrid identities’: why Germany is updating its citizenship rules – The draft law would allow people to apply for citizenship after just five years of residence in Germany, rather than eight years currently. It also states that: “Those who have made a particular effort to integrate — such as becoming proficient in German, doing voluntary work or performing well in school — can apply after three years.”
“The idea that you have only one homeland is completely outdated.”
Actually, no. Not even in Germany.
Man denied German citizenship for refusing to shake woman’s hand – The man aced the German naturalization test, but refused to shake hands with the female official handing over his citizenship.
You get one guess which rich cultural background this guy had. Wow. You got that one on the very first try!
How could it even be considered possible at all?
Under a draft law, immigrants living in Germany under a false name would later find it extremely difficult to become citizens.
Well, it still is just a draft, folks. I’m sure they’ll take that “extremely difficult” part out yet.
In an apparent bid to deter asylum-seekers from providing false information about their identities, the German government plans on making it harder for foreign nationals to attain citizenship, Die Welt newspaper reported on Friday.
A draft law drawn up by the Interior Ministry targets immigrants who have been living in Germany under a false name or provided authorities with incorrect information about their country of origin when they arrived.
Currently, foreigners are generally eligible for German citizenship if they’ve lived in the country for eight years or more.
Under the new law, the years that an immigrant lived under a false identity would no longer count towards the total years required to attain citizenship.
Watch out! Dual-nationals who fight for them will lose their German citizenship!
This is how Germany kind of sort of works. It’s always too little, too late and heartfelt half-ass. And then everybody congratulates one another for having reached a compromise. It would be funny as hell if it weren’t so sad.
Germany is to introduce new legislation to remove citizenship from dual-nationals who fight for the self-styled Islamic State (IS) and other terrorist groups.
To date, German nationals could only have their citizenship stripped if they joined foreign armed forces without the government’s permission. Now the German government has decided to extend the legislation to cover German citizens who travel to fight on behalf of a terror militia.
Meanwhile, in Syria… “The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 Isis fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. The Caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them.”
Needless to say, the Germans don’t want them. Nor do they wish to try them. Is Guantanamo still in operation?
So ein Sinnlos-Gesetz kann sich wirklich nur die GroKo ausdenken.
Just answer the following questions politically correctly and you could become a German citizen!
Is US-Amerika to blame for practically all the world’s ills?
Do you love to obsess about the privacy of the data no one is forcing you to place on your numerous free social media platforms nor is particularly interested in?
Are you convinced that your recycling and waste separation efforts are saving the lives of polar bears as we speak?
Are you OK with the fact that you are a “pacifist” living in one of the world’s largest weapons exporting nations?
Is your first impulse to shut down all of your nuclear power plants whenever an earthquake takes place in Japan?
Is it OK for you to pretend to be more European than other Europeans are while dominating those other Europeans with your crushing economic might?
Do you believe everything you see every night on your tax-funded state TV news channels?
Are you considering reducing the number of your annual vacation flights from three down to one to help combat Global Warming?
Is US-Amerika still to blame for practically all the world’s ills?
Well then, if the answer to those was an emphatic “Yes!” you don’t worry about taking the alternative citizenship test. You’re a German already.
Please note: This is just a small sampling of the questions asked during the final examination.
Oh, I don’t know. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the Germans don’t want them to become German.
What a surprise again (not). Fewer and fewer migrant types are interested in becoming German citizens and this is, well, shocking or something – and bound to make most Germans who hear about it happy as larks.
Just the other day they had a great story in the news which was swiftly swept under the rug (I thought it was practical joke again); a group of German politicians suggested giving IQ tests to those interested in becoming German citizens. Makes a lot of sense. If you stop and think about it for a second, I mean. Pitiful. And funny as hell at the same time.
“Böhning hat das Gefühl, dass das Einwandern erschwert werden solle.”
Observing Hermann 