Millennials of Germany, (people in the age group 18-35) have the most welcoming attitude towards immigrants when compared with their counterparts in the rest of Europe, even as there seems to be a palpable increase in negativity towards immigrants and asylum-seekers in Europe’s largest economy. A study carried out by German broadcasters Bayerischer Rundfunk, ZDF… Read More »

The German Federal Statistics Office, Destatis, stated on 16 September that out of the total country’s population of 81.4 million in 2015, 17.1 million people had some kind of a relationship with an immigrant family, with most of them being not born in this West European nation. This includes immigrants to Germany, citizens with one… Read More »

A high inflow of migrants to Germany has given rise to a construction boom in Germany, the fourth largest economy in the world. Wsj.com quotes the German Federal Statistical Office, or Destatis, as saying on 18 August that the first six months of this year had seen building permits for dwellings increase by around 30… Read More »

Immigrant employers created 1.3 million jobs in 2014, a study by the Bertelsmann Foundation revealed on 11 August. In 2005, they were responsible for creating 947,000 employment opportunities. The Local is quoted as saying that the number of immigrant entrepreneurs had also increased in one decade by around 25 percent to 709,000. The population rise,… Read More »

Dr Joybrato Mukherjee, vice president of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) who was a part of the delegation that accompanied German chancellor Angela Merkel to India last week, is very upbeat about the growing number of Indian students going for higher education in Germany. In 2014-15, there was a record 23 per cent growth… Read More »

There has been a record growth in the number of Indians studying in Germany for the year 2014-15. There are 11,860 Indian students enrolled in German universities, a massive increase of 23 per cent over the figures of the previous year. Indians now form the second-largest group of international students in German universities, after the… Read More »