Whether migrants are accepted or rejected directly should therefore be decided at the external borders. The federal government had hesitated for a long time to join the reform proposal – and is now setting conditions.
The traffic light coalition has set itself the goal of making migration “proactive and realistic”. And that, of course, with an “active and orderly policy”. The federal government has actually introduced far-reaching new regulations for the immigration of skilled workers. Otherwise, however, she is under enormous pressure on the subject: on the one hand, the federal states are demanding more support and effective limitation of immigration before the refugee summit on May 10th. On the other hand, a number of EU partners want to tighten the European rules, some of them drastically.