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CSU on migration and integration

From the program “For a Strong and Stable Bavaria. Life Is Simply Better in Bavaria.”

2023 Bavaria state election, October 8, 2023Original PDF, 24 pagesAnalyzed on October 3, 2026

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Placement on Migration and integration

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Each axis measures one topic. There is no single "left" or "right" for everything here: economy, society, migration and security are kept apart. Only what the program says is placed. How to read the placement

  • Europeleaning more EU (-1), from 1 point

    Points per step: 0 clearly more EU, 1 leaning more EU, 0 balanced, 0 leaning less EU, 0 clearly less EU

  • Migrationleaning restrictive (+1), from 2 points

    Points per step: 0 clearly open, 0 leaning open, 0 balanced, 2 leaning restrictive, 0 clearly restrictive

The small columns under the bars show how many points sit on each of the five steps.

Limit irregular migration, speed up returns

The CSU wants to prevent irregular migration and speed up deportations while affirming labor migration and help for people in need of protection. It calls for better protection of the EU's external borders, a European asylum system with decision centers at the external border and more federal help for municipalities.

The CSU wants fewer people to enter without permission. Europe's borders should be better protected. People who need no protection or commit crimes should have to leave. People who have a job should be allowed to stay. Skilled workers from abroad are welcome.

At the EU level, the platform demands harmonized social benefits for refugees and an end to onward movement within Europe. The federal government should stop special admission programs, shorten asylum and court proceedings, create effective return management and classify countries with persistently low recognition rates as safe countries of origin. Those who work or are in training should stay; those with no grounds for protection, who deceive about their identity or commit crimes should leave. Integration programs are to focus on language, education, work and everyday culture. For skilled workers, the CSU plans new recruitment offices in Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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„Der Bund muss Pull-Effekte reduzieren, Sonderaufnahmeprogramme unterlassen und illegale Zuwanderung stoppen.“

Translation: The federal government must reduce pull factors, refrain from special admission programs and stop illegal immigration.

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Placement

  • Europeleaning more EU

    The CSU demands a common European asylum system with centers at the external border and harmonized benefits, meaning more common EU policy.

  • Migrationleaning restrictive

    Admission programs would end, deportations speed up and more safe countries of origin be designated, while labor migration and a right to stay for workers are affirmed.

Reject easier naturalization

The CSU rejects faster naturalization, for instance after just three years of residence. Citizenship should come at the end of successful integration and require a commitment to values and language. Dual citizenship should remain the exception.

The CSU does not want to make it easier to get a German passport. Three years in Germany is not enough for the CSU. People should speak German well and support themselves. Two passports should only be allowed in special cases.

The platform calls citizenship the most valuable thing a state can grant. The CSU opposes naturalization without sufficient language skills or without independently secured income, calling this “citizenship light.” Many people in Bavaria worked hard for their citizenship, it says.

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„Wir lehnen daher eine „Staatsbürgerschaft light“, etwa schon nach drei Jahren Aufenthalt, ohne ausreichende Sprachkenntnisse oder eigenständige Sicherung des Lebensunterhalts ab.“

Translation: We therefore reject a “citizenship light,” for instance after just three years of residence, without sufficient language skills or the ability to support oneself independently.

Page 10 in the original

Placement

  • Migrationleaning restrictive

    The CSU explicitly defends the current naturalization rules against the federal government's planned reform with shorter waiting periods and dual citizenship.

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