German Bundestag, Plenarprotokoll 19/208,
pp, 26255-26256.
Frau President. Right honorable ladies and gentlemen.
As a result of the Federal government’s Corona preventive
measures, the German labor market has fallen into a deep crisis – not to be
overlooked. Besides hundreds of thousands of newly unemployed and millions in
part-time work, now also threatens a never before known wave of insolvency.
We hold it to be irresponsible that the Federal government
in these difficult times wants to continue to attract by the West Balkans
Regulation a labor force from the former Yugoslavia to Germany. In that regard,
the West Balkans Regulation is entirely other than a model of success. In past
years, out of 356,000 employees owed social insurance, already came 117,000
Hartz-IV recipients. Thus, of three employees from the West Balkans, comes one
social benefits recipient.
Yet there is still another problem. By means of the
extension of the regulation, the government now further attracts to Germany, by
tens of thousands of times, the most severe wage competition for our domestic
employees. The workforce from the West Balkans states works for us at an
average of 900 euros per month less than the German worker. The consequence is
a wage dumping in fact promoted by the state; and you all look away.
Beate Müller-Gemmeke (Greens): This
nevertheless does not concern the people! This incitement!
While almost 17 percent of German employees presently work
in the low-wage sector, over 33 percent of the workers there are from the West
Balkans, thus twice as many. All of this besides corresponds to what the German
Institute for Economic Research wrote already in 2016. I cite:
In a modeled economy…immigration
increases the domestic labor supply and leads to lower wages for the domestic
population…
Yet the West Balkans Regulation promotes not only wage
dumping in Germany but also the large-scale emigration of a qualified workforce
from the West Balkan states to Germany.
Some of the heads of government of the countries concerned
in some cases complain of this. Serbia’s President Vucic last year even
demanded of Minister Spahn to no more come to Serbia to there entice care
personnel. And in Kosovo, the emigration of doctors and care personnel to Germany
meanwhile has alarming effects on the healthcare system: Once operational
doctors’ centers have transformed into ghost clinics, writes the Austrian “Standard”.
According to the Balkan Barometer, 71 percent of the young people are
considering leaving their home countries. Even Foreign Minister Maas – Is he
still here? I no more see him – said just in October to the Deutsche Welle: We
cannot close our eyes to the continuing brain drain in the Balkans.
The West Balkans Regulation thus promotes a form of
immigration which violates our social interests, harms employees in Germany by
means of increasing wage pressure and solely and alone reduces the people to
its role as mobile human capital.
Like the Federal government’s entire immigration policy, the
West Balkans Regulation follows a market radical and globalistic logic,
according to which the only concern is the complete mobility of the factors of
production. A workforce should be able to wander from place to place like
nomads, whereby people become import goods and the affected societies and families
are torn apart. And the German Left bestows on the whole an emancipatory little
cloak and thereby candidly reveals itself as a vehicle in the interests of
capitalists and great combinations.
We of the AfD delegation do not make ourselves out to be the
parliamentary bailiff of globalist interests. The fundamentally wrong shuntings
in the German immigration policy and the soon to be one year long lockdown
crisis oblige us as responsible politicians to end without delay the West
Balkans Regulation. We demand [Drucksache
19/26543] precisely that as the Alternative für Deutschland.
Many thanks.
[trans: tem]
