External Affairs Minister of India S Jaishankar and Germany’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock signed an agreement on a ‘Comprehensive Migration and Mobility Partnership’ on December 5.
About Comprehensive Migration and Mobility Partnership
- It aims to facilitate mobility and employment opportunities between India and Germany.
- Through a new law to be adopted in early 2023, Germany’s government proposes to significantly facilitate the immigration of qualified workers from abroad.
- The Migration and Mobility Partnership agreement has specific provisions to facilitate mobility and employment opportunities for fostering exchange of skills and talent. These include Academic Evaluation Center in New Delhi, 18 months extended residence permits to students, 3,000 job seeker visas annually, liberalised short stay multiple entry visas and streamlined readmission procedures.
India-Germany relation
- On March 7, 2021, India and Germany marked the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations.
- India and Germany have a ‘Strategic Partnership’ since May 2000, which has been further strengthened with the launch of Intergovernmental Consultations (IGC) in 2011 at the level of Heads of Government.
- Germany and India support each other on UNSC expansion within the framework of the G4.
- Germany joined the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in February 2020 and participated in the first Governing Council meeting in March 2020.
