Foreigners now make up at least one in three people considered long-term unemployed in Germany after soaring by over 40 per cent since 2018.
Despite longstanding claims that migrants are necessary to fill job positions, figures from Germany’s Federal Employment Agency (BA) have found that 33 per cent of long-term unemployed — those remaining jobless for over a year — people in the country last year did not hold German citizenship.
Broadcaster NTV reports that in 2024, around 972,000 people in the country were long-term unemployed, around 317,000 of whom did not hold a German passport.
This represented a significant increase over past years, with foreign citizens making up around 187,000, or 23 per cent, of all long-term unemployed people in Germany in 2018.
The actual number of unemployed migrants living in the country may be much higher, given that the figures did not…
