Understanding Europe

COVID-19 — also known as coronavirus — is spreading throughout the globe | Photo: picture-alliance/AP Photo/ NIAID-RML
Children talk outside their tent at the Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, 8 January 2020 | Photo: EPA/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU
How does the “Fachkräftezuwanderungsgesetz” - or Skilled Immigration Act - make it easier for skilled professionals to migrate to Germany for work?
The Secretary of State Ayse Asar, Federal Employment Agency board member Daniel Terzenbach, Education and Research Minister Ana Karliczek and Employment Minister Hubertus Heil at the opening for the ZSBA in Bonn | Photo: ZAV / Rainer Unkel
The Conservative Home Secretary (Interior Minister) Priti Patel says that the new system is about taking back control, attracting highly skilled people and reducing overall immigration | Photo: Imago