At a time when lakhs of employees around the world, including some in India, have been facing the axe due to mass layoffs, Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz has urged India’s IT specialists and other skilled workers to consider working in Germany.
Europe’s largest economy Germany is looking for ways to tackle labour shortages.
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Germany To Grant Visas Even In The Absence Of Job Offer
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While wrapping up his visit to India, Scholz said his coalition government was planning to reduce immigration hurdles and introduce a point-based system that would grant visas even to specialists who don’t yet have a firm job offer in hand.
“I am quite sure that many will want to take advantage of the opportunities to work as skilled workers in Germany,”
Scholz told reporters during a visit to software company SAP Labs India in Bangalore, where he held a roundtable discussion with workers, as per a Bloomberg report.
“We need this in all areas of employment, but of course especially when it comes to skills such as those we have seen today in the area of software and IT development,” Scholz said.
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German Chancellor’s Two-Day Visit To India
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The German leader’s two-day visit to India was intended to strengthen economic ties as well as discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who will host the next Group of 20 leaders summit in September.
Scholz, who traveled with a large business delegation, said he would personally make an effort to advance talks between the EU and India for a trade and investment agreement.
PM Modi and German Chancellor Scholz are also said to have discussed increased defence cooperation, including a possible joint venture to build six submarines in India to assist the Asian country in modernising its maritime forces.
During his meeting with workers at the SAP Labs, Scholz said he was “determined” to reduce bureaucratic hurdles to immigration for skilled workers and “make it easier to come to Germany as a specialist, including with your own family.”
Germany To Welcome Talented & Skillful Indians
As per the Bloomberg report, Scholz said he wants to “establish a new system that allows people to apply for a visa to Germany who still have not signed a specific job contract but who come with a lot of talent and skills and then find a job in Germany.”
The coalition government is putting the finishing touches on a draft law to ease immigration barriers, Scholz said. The new system is planned to work on a points basis, comparable to those in countries such as Canada. A command of the German language would be an advantage, he added.
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