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Lecture: The German-Italian Recruitment Agreement – the soul of Europe
| The Euregio Adult Education Center invites you to a lecture on Thursday, October 9, at 7 pm in the public library. The occasion is the 70th anniversary of the German-Italian Recruitment Agreement, which celebrates its 70th anniversary on December 20 this year. |
| When Federal Labor Minister Anton Storch (CDU) from Adenauer’s cabinet signed the agreement in 1955, the then Federal Republic of Germany sealed its first bilateral treaty of this kind. Following its example, further agreements followed with other countries such as Spain, Greece, Portugal and Turkey.
The German-Italian Treaty made it possible for German companies to legally employ workers from Italy. As a result, people from this country came to Germany to work in numerous sectors. Since the 1950s, a total of almost four million Italian citizens have immigrated to Germany. Not all of them stayed permanently. What motivated people to come to Germany over the decades? How did and do the immigrants live here? How did they integrate? What is the relationship to the country of origin, the native language and culture? Why do people go back, why do others stay in Germany? The lecture will examine these questions and shed light on the background to the recruitment agreement signed 70 years ago. There will be an opportunity for questions and discussion after the presentation. The speaker is Dr. Alessandro Bellardita, Chairman of the German-Italian Society Karlsruhe and himself the son of a Sicilian family who came to Germany in the early 1980s. In addition to his work as a judge and lecturer at the University for the Administration of Justice in Schwetzingen, he works as a freelance journalist for Italian and German newspapers and as an author of non-fiction books and novels. The lecture is free of charge, but registration at the VHS is requested: Tel.: 02562 12-666 or online: www.vhs-gronau.de |
