Germany to make language a test for nationality

Germany to make language a test for nationality
(AFP)

5 May 2006

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany - Germany has decided that immigrants will have to pass language tests and take citizenship classes to qualify for nationality, the interior minister of the southern state of Bavaria said on Friday.


“They will have to pass a test at the end of the courses. Merely having attended class will not suffice,” Guenther Beckstein said at the end of a meeting in the mountain resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.

Immigrants will mostly have to pay for their language courses themselves.

Officials from the federal government and the country’s 16 regional states have been mulling the disputed measures for the past two days.

Germany has in recent months seen a heated political debate about whether it should introduce stricter legislation in an attempt to improve the integration of immigrants.

Controversy was fuelled by attempts by a handful of schools in areas with big immigrant populations to force students to speak only German.

The federal minister in charge of integration, Maria Boehmer, welcomed the decision.

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Yes it seems that every nation on this earth can protect its 'national sovereignty' except for 'The United States of America'. We are allowed to do nothing that might offend a special interest group, racial/ethnic group, religion, or political group.

I don't believe in pc on any level. Let's call a blind person, 'blind' and 'not sight challenged'. Let's also call 'invaders' just that 'invaders' and kick their illegal asses out of mine and your country. These people have no rights and if I were in charge the only right they would have is the right to be sent back to Mexico or wherever they are from, 'feet first'!