Citizenship and Immigration committee  In Germany we are having a discussion right now on the way to accept Iraqi refugees in a non-bureaucratic manner. First and foremost, we are concerned about Christians from Iraq, but when we start with Christians we ask ourselves, and then who else? Then we end up with a much mor

Citizenship and Immigration committee  [Witness speaks in German]

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I am sorry to say that unfortunately, we do not have any model that is in anyway similar to yours. In fact, what happened during the 1960s and 1970s is that we brought “guest workers“ over to Germany. We consider that they are guests. They come, they work, and they leave. However

Citizenship and Immigration committee  I prefer to speak German. My name is Volker Schneider. I am a member of the new left party. I am a member of the committee for education, research, and lifelong learning. One of my topics of interest is to study the way people from different countries with different qualificati