Interior Minister Nancy Faeser visits Tunisia. The Mahgreb state should support Europe against illegal migration. But just one detail of German immigration policy shows how difficult cooperation can be.
Such people as Baha Eddine Boukachata are of course welcome. The Tunisian is 27 years old, speaks German very well, has completed his training as an automotive mechatronics technician and has an employment contract with MAN in Braunschweig. He says working in Germany is “a dream” for him. Nancy Faeser is very excited. “We look forward to you coming to Germany,” says the interior minister. “We can really use you.”
Faeser is visiting a European program for the regular support of labor migration in Tunis this Monday. It is, if you will, the most enjoyable part of their two-day trip to Tunisia. Because the focus of their conversations are of course all those people who do not want to go to Europe with the support of state-funded programs and with employment contracts in their pockets, but with the help of smugglers and smugglers and often with their last shirts on.