Plans for migration policy: suspension of family reunification and end of turbo naturalization

Federal Interior Minister Dobrindt is planning drastic cuts in German migration policy: Family reunification for refugees with subsidiary protection is to be suspended for two years, while accelerated naturalization is to be abolished. These measures, aimed at easing the burden on the integration systems, are not without controversy, however. Critics warn of long-term family separations and see them as a serious infringement of fundamental rights. The debate on this is now expected in the Bundestag and Bundesrat.

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