Integration courses for asylum seekers: Where Dobrindt is right

February 17, 2026byadmin

The Interior Minister wants to save money on free integration courses for migrants. This can also be found consistently. Only he takes the second step before the first.

February 16, 2026, 8:55 p.m

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Federal Interior Minister Dobrindt is cutting integration courses for certain migrant groups, which has met with widespread criticism. But the decision also raises the question of whether the current status quo is also questionable. Some asylum seekers have successfully integrated, even though they do not have a “positive prospect of staying.” The discussion about integration courses also raises the long-term question of how Germany wants to deal with labor migration in the future. The creation of a “work and stay agency” could be a first step towards a modern immigration country.

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How can he?! Many people have been asking themselves this since Federal Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt (CSU) decided to offer free integration courses to fewer migrants. Not only the Greens and the Left are against it, but also the coalition partner SPDthe German Cities Association and even conservative newspapers like that FAZ (“Not in the sense of the cityscape”) and the FAS
(“Minister of Segregation”).

All of this is understandable. And yet the critics overlook an essential point: there is definitely something hypocritical about the status quo. Seen this way, Dobrindt’s decision can also be found to be consistent.