Foreigners who want to join their spouses in Germany will have to be able to form entire German sentences, according to a decision by a Berlin administrative court on Monday. In addition, the law stipulates that immigrating spouses must be at least 18. Moreover, the spouse’s move to Germany can be blocked if the couple cannot prove that they can provide for themselves.
When a group of young people with Turkish and Lebanese backgrounds attacked a bus driver in Berlin, saying "everything is damned German everywhere," many in the German media held it up as a sign of how young immigrant men had grown to hate the majority German population.