German conservative says community service would help migrants integrate

[rooster59]

German conservative says community service would help migrants integrate

 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia August 24, 2018. REUTERS/Hayk Baghdasaryan/Photolure

 

BERLIN (Reuters) - Completing a year of community service would improve the integration of refugees into German society and their acceptance by the public, the general secretary of Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party said on Saturday.

 

Many members of the Christian Democrat Union supported either reinstating the military draft or a year of community service, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told the Funke Mediengruppe newspapers and the French newspaper Ouest-France in an interview published on Saturday.

 

She said the party was looking at different service proposals for inclusion in the party's next election campaign.

 

She said nothing had been decided, and she herself had reservations, remembering her mother's stories about having to complete a mandatory year of service during the Nazi era.

 

But she said many party members had told her during a summer "listening tour" that reinstating the draft - which was scrapped in 2011 - or community service was a good idea for both native Germans and immigrants.

 

"If refugees complete such a year, either voluntary or compulsory, it would help their integration into the country and society. And in the populations, it would increase acceptance that refugees live among us," she told the newspapers.

 

Merkel's decision in 2015 to let in over a million migrants, many fleeing wars in the Middle East, has fuelled support for far-right groups such as PEGIDA and the Alternative for Germany, now the main opposition party in parliament.

 

German officials said this month they had no intention of reinstating compulsory military service, citing the high cost and the difficulty of integrating draftees into the professional military.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-08-25

[canopus1969]

I support Merkel's integration of refugees into German society, so much so I believe all new immigrants / refugees should go to Germany and stay there

[lupin]

Completing a year of community service refraining from committing crime disproportionately to the rest of the population would improve the integration of refugees into German society and their acceptance by the public

[anon789561]

Yeah. Get them to join the German army after they already ran away from home instead of fighting for it. Sounds like a plan 

[Hayduke]

 

A brilliant, innovative, and visionary plan. They only need to identify who they will blame when it fails....and everything will be good to go.

 

 

Edited August 25, 2018 by Hayduke

[transam]

Does he know that non Christian immigrants may still not like him whatever his ideas..

[Guest]

5 hours ago, rooster59 said:

"If refugees complete such a year, either voluntary or compulsory, it would help their integration into the country and society. And in the populations, it would increase acceptance that refugees live among us," she told the newspapers.

This is a good idea. Keep the people busy, doing something productive helps people to keep out of troubles.

 

After the year, they have learned more how to act in the west and have probably learned quite a bit of the language as well.

 

When the war ends, they'll also be able to help to reconstruct Syria, their homeland. 

 

 

[ivor bigun]

Dont let them in in the first place sounds a much better idea

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[727Sky]

They're NOT Coming To Assimilate But To CONQUER

 

Has been stated many times from different sources. Community service probably a good idea as they will at least have the identities of anyone committing a crime while on duty.

 

Military service ??

 

Training those who wish to conquer instead of assimilate; maybe not such a great idea... There are stories now circulating that the German military is considering drafting those who are younger than 18 years of age.. I suppose their recruitment efforts are not working out for them ?