A “German Test for Immigrants” certificate, received following the successful completion of an integration course. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Sven Hoppe After Germany quietly decided to restrict ...

The German Interior Ministry is restricting access to voluntary integration courses for immigrants, citing budget constraints. Many critics consider this a disastrous decision. Müge Tuzcu Karakoc is ...

Government says public funding no longer needed after number of refugees entering country drops James Rothwell is The Telegraph’s Berlin correspondent. He joined in 2014 and has since worked as a ...

The state of Saxony is slashing investment in integration support, while experts warn the move will have serious consequences for refugees and society at large. So how much is being cut, how much does ...

Would you like to learn German? In addition to language courses offered by private providers, there are also subsidized integration courses offered by the federal government and the state capital ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany said on Wednesday it would offer civics courses to all interested foreigners after a meeting with immigrant groups revealed new discord over how authorities handle ...

Disagreements over immigration policy could flare when German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits the White House later this week. In just the past two years, more than 1 million refugees — many of them ...

NUREMBERG, Germany -- "On the first day of the Taliban takeover, they came to my house and took away my car and the weapons we had," says Seema Stanikzai, an Afghan woman in her mid-30s. To mark ...

How important is language acquisition to the integration of skilled immigrants? This is the subject of “Deutsch lernen für ein Leben in Deutschland” (Learning German for a Life in Germany), a report ...

Akhlaq Hussain fled to Germany from Pakistan after he and his school received threats of kidnapping and death from the Taliban. Ibrahim Habib is a refugee from Syria, where he designed and cut ...