Germany’s inside minister, Nancy Faeser, a member of Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), additionally warned that an exodus of Syrians would have appreciable penalties for Germany’s labor market, notably its healthcare sector, which has come to depend on Syrian nurses and medical doctors.
“Entire areas of the healthcare sector would disappear if all Syrians working right here had been to go away our nation now,” the SPD politician mentioned. “For us, it will be significant that we provide Syrians who’re right here, who’ve a job, who’ve built-in, who’re freed from prison offenses, whose youngsters go to high school, the chance to remain right here and be there for our economic system.”
Around 6,000 Syrian medical doctors work in Germany, Health Minister Karl Lauterbach wrote on X. An election debate about their future in Germany would “deeply disappoint and unsettle” them, he added.
Insensitive and pointless
Across Europe, Syrians expressed comparable emotions — a combination of pleasure over Assad’s fall, worries about the way forward for the nation, and disappointment with a lot of the European political discourse on refugees.
“Although we have now seen the celebrations all around the world [of] the top of the Assad dictatorship, the scenario in Syria stays deeply unstable, and for a lot of, returning residence now feels each unsafe and unwise,” mentioned Ayman Alhussein, a Syrian filmmaker and refugee residing in London.
“It’s arduous to justify how swiftly Europe and the U.Ok. moved to droop asylum choices,” he continued. “I hoped that international locations would rush to ship help and supply steering on how it may be constructed once more, and sanctions on Syria haven’t even been lifted but. But sadly, refugees have lengthy been handled as political playing cards, and this appears like yet one more instance of that. The determination isn’t solely insensitive but in addition solely pointless.”
