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This is fucking depressing to read. As someone who moved to Germany two years ago, gaining citizenship is important to us. When we moved here they were just announcing the expedited opportunity and we were stoked to know we were welcome in this country. It reinforced our decision. Now they look to take it away and although the 5 year plan will still exist, it signals clearly that the CDU don't want highly educated immigration - they will blame immigrants while they raid the coffers of their country - and the SPD will gladly move further to the right if it means they get to stay in power.
This is incredibly disappointing. It's not enough to change our plans, like if the AFD won, but I consider the grand coalition to be a "continued decline" coalition. If another country offered me and my family a guaranteed path to citizenship, with similar worker rights and benefits as Germany, we'd now have to consider it seriously. As aerospace engineers we're not exactly struggling to find technical work.
Furthermore the fact that both parties considered revoking citizenship for any reason from anyone is unbelievably terrifying. If anyone's citizenship can be removed, everyone's citizenship can be removed and that's something I completely disagree with. It's dangerous territory and completely disgusting to read that the SPD considered it.
It's just a dumb populist policy. The CDU thinks it has a chance to get voters from AfD back by moving even more to the right. Even if it means to damage the country by alienating highly skilled migrants.
I agree, but the SPD went through with it. The two largest parties in Germany aren't interested in bettering the country they're interested in making press headlines while increasing the wealth of their friends and the wealthy.
The fact that the first three policies I've seen come out of this coalition are increasing our national debt, wanting to decrease taxes on the wealthy, and removing a niche path to citizenship for the people we want here the most should be a wake up call for the - what 40% of Germans who voted for these people. They're antiquated parties incapable of making real progress for the working German.