German Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants to send a “sign against the right”
The lettering is intended to make it clear that “more than a quarter of employees in German companies have an immigration background,” according to a statement from the organization . Only with “these 27 percent can we achieve 100 percent performance in the economy,” emphasized DIHK President Peter Adrian. One cannot and does not want to do without these people in the company.
“We have heard many people from the IHKs, companies and other business associations wanting to send a corresponding signal,” said Adrian. Others are also called upon to take part in the campaign. Precisely because it is actually not common to play with your own logo, they want to make it clear how big the concern is.
DIHK calls for more infrastructure for left-behind regions
One would also particularly like to emphasize that the proportion of immigrants is particularly noticeable when starting up companies. In the past ten years, the start-up rate among immigrants was ten percent, almost twice as high as among natives - where it was only six percent. “Companies that are run or founded by people with an immigrant background are such an important part of our business location,” emphasized Adrian.
In order to further weaken the right-wing political spectrum, they now want to develop solutions “so that regions, sectors and people do not feel left behind or even really are ”. The association is therefore calling for, among other things, an expansion of the infrastructure.
Danish and Dutch studies show high costs of immigration
The effects of non-European immigration on Europe's economic development have been controversially discussed for many years. The Hans Böckler Foundation of the German Federation of Trade Unions published a study in 2016, according to which the influx of asylum seekers acts like “an economic stimulus program” on the German economy.
In a 2021 study, Denmark's Ministry of Finance, however, broke down which migrant groups generate an economic plus or minus over the course of their lives. The result: Migrants from North Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan and Turkey create an economic deficit for Denmark over their entire lives.
A study by the Dutch migration researcher Gerrit Kreffer, which was published in January, comes to a similar conclusion. Accordingly, migrants from Africa and Morocco in particular generate immense costs for the Netherlands. Kreffer warned that even more immigration from these countries could destroy the welfare state.
Source: Junge Freiheit