Strengthen students' digital skills and accelerate the use of IT tools at school, college and high school. This is the wish of Pap Ndiaye, the Minister of Education, who presented measures in this direction this Friday. To develop this strategy for digital, all middle school students, and a majority of students in elementary school and high school, will have to benefit each year from now to 2027 from a media and digital education action. (EMI), by participating in the week...
It assures that it is "the first" French metropolis to adopt such a text. On closer inspection, Lille and Toulouse have already done the same thing, but who cares. At the end of the year, the elected representatives of Rennes Métropole voted in favor of the adoption of a first “metropolitan charter of citizen participation”. This document has the particularity of having been designed by a citizen jury drawn by lot. For several months, 86 inhabitants chosen at random began...
An Italian from the Kelheim district who studied automotive engineering in Bavaria and works as a test engineer; a Syrian who is doing his secondary school leaving certificate in Munich and is now doing commercial training; a Romanian who works as an architect in Erlangen - these are three examples from the most recent naturalization statistics reported by the Ministry of the Interior.23,158 people were granted German citizenship in Bavaria last year. A third of them come from the European...
whistleblower Snowden defends his Russian citizenship Russian President Vladimir Putin has granted Russian citizenship to former US Secretary of State Edward Snowden. photo © Uncredited/WikiLeaks/AP/dpa Edward Snowden received his Russian passport this week. The whistleblower has now commented on his motives for accepting Russian citizenship. US whistleblower Edward Snowden has defended Russian citizenship against criticism. "I'm in Russia because the White House deliberately canceled my passport to keep me here," Snowden said on Twitter. "They downed the President of Bolivia's...
integration Criticism of reform of citizenship law Monika Schnitzer is Chairwoman of the Advisory Council for the Assessment of Overall Economic Development. photo © Michael Kappeler/dpa Politicians continue to argue about a reform of citizenship law. The government also wants to adopt proposals for easier immigration of skilled workers. But here, too, there is resistance. After the criticism of the government's plan to speed up naturalization, initial plans to facilitate the immigration of skilled workers also met with reservations from...
comment Status: 11/29/2022 09:27 am It is right to modernize citizenship law. Also for political reasons: It is not good for democracy if nine million immigrants are not allowed to vote. A comment by Martin Ganslmeier, ARD capital studio Almost 25 years ago there was a heated argument in Germany about dual citizenship. The then Hessian CDU politician Roland Koch warned of the consequences and was successful in winning votes in the state election campaign. CSU regional group leader Alexander...
Status: 11/28/2022 5:10 p.m Chancellor Scholz has once again intervened in the debate about naturalization. He defended the planned reform and campaigned for easier naturalization. But some politicians from the Union and FDP are stonewalling. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has defended the intended reform of naturalization against criticism. "Nine million citizens live and work in our country without having German citizenship. But a democracy thrives on the opportunity to have a say," said Scholz (SPD). "This is how legitimacy is created,...
Interior Minister Nancy Faeser's (SPD) plans to reform citizenship law have sparked a controversial debate.CDU leader Friedrich Merz said on Sunday in the ARD program "Report from Berlin": "German citizenship is something very valuable and you have to be careful with it." Dual citizenship should not be the norm, but the exception. If the goal of the coalition is immigration into the social systems, this must be prevented. "Then of course we won't agree to that." In an international comparison,...
citizenship Scholz for reform of citizenship law Citizenship law is to be reformed in Germany. photo © Fabian Sommer/dpa According to plans by the federal government, foreigners in Germany should soon be able to obtain German citizenship more easily. The Chancellor promotes a reform. Warnings come from the Union. Chancellor Olaf Scholz has spoken out in favor of reforming citizenship law. Germany needs "better regulations" for naturalization, said the SPD politician in his video message "Kanzler compact". According to Scholz,...
citizenship Turkish community welcomes citizenship law reform Citizenship law is to be reformed in Germany. photo © Fabian Sommer/dpa The traffic light aims to facilitate the naturalization of people who have lived in Germany for a long time. The opposition criticizes the reform plans and warns of an "inflationary issue of German passports". The Turkish community has welcomed the planned reform of the citizenship law. The initiative is a "paradigm shift," said Gökay Sofuoglu, chairman of the editorial network Germany...
