Labour-hungry Germany to ease citizenship path despite migration rows

Germany is expected on Friday to approve a law that shortens the path to citizenship and makes it easier to hold multiple nationalities, moves designed to ease crippling labour shortages by making the country more attractive to migrant workers. The new law, a signature policy of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition of centrist and left-leaning parties, comes as Germany is convulsed by rows over the burden that migration is placing on public services at a time when money is scarce. "We have to keep pace in the race to attract skilled labour," said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser ahead of the vote in the Bundestag that will pass the new law.