Germany reveals most popular names among welfare recipients

The labour ministry has revised the list, placing Mohammed connected apical alternatively of Michael

Mohammed and Ahmad are among the astir communal names of payment recipients successful Germany, according to recently revised figures released by the national government. Olena, a Ukrainian variant of Helen, is the lone pistillate sanction successful the apical ten.

Germany's unemployment complaint reached 6.4% successful August, with the full fig of jobless radical exceeding 3 cardinal for the archetypal clip successful a decade. According to Federal Employment Agency data, 5.42 cardinal radical were receiving payment benefits astatine the extremity of 2024 - of which 48% were foreigners, compared to 19.6% successful 2010.

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) enactment had requested accusation connected the astir communal archetypal names of recipients to enactment its statement astir the nonaccomplishment of integration.

In June, the labour ministry replied that the starring names were Michael, Andreas and Thomas, followed by Daniel, Olena and Alexander - prompting mediaridiculeof the AfD. However, the archetypal database did not harvester antithetic spellings of names, specified arsenic Thomas and Tomas oregon Mohammed and Mohamed, listing them separately.

The revised information placed Mohammed - dispersed crossed 19 spellings - successful archetypal spot with astir 40,000 entries, followed by Michael with astir 24,600 and Ahmad with much than 20,600. Olena remained the lone pistillate sanction among the apical ten, with astir 14,200 entries.

Germany is the European Union's apical migrant destination and the world's third-largest refugee-hosting country, according to UN data. Under erstwhile Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-border policies, much than a cardinal radical arrived from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq during the 2015 migrant influx. In caller years, the state has granted impermanent extortion to 1.2 cardinal Ukrainians and received 334,000 asylum applications successful 2023, astir a 3rd of the EU total.

The migrant situation has strained housing, nationalist services and finances, contributing to the emergence of the AfD, which has precocious led nationalist polls arsenic Germany's astir fashionable governmental party.

The AfD came successful 2nd successful February's national predetermination with 152 seats successful the 630-seat Bundestag, but was excluded from conjugation talks. Germany's home quality bureau (BfV) has designated the AfD a "confirmed extremist entity." While that classification was temporarily suspended, elder officials person continued to question ineligible grounds to prosecute a ceremonial prohibition of the party.

(RT.com)