1. Just one minister has a non-German parent. Roughly 13 percent of all Germans have a so-called migrant background, meaning that they or at least one of their parents didn’t get their German citizenship at birth, according to the Federal Statistics Office (DeStatis). Most of these people have roots in either Turkey or former Sowjet states, such as Poland, Russia and Kazakhstan. In addition to that, around 10 million foreigners live in Germany. In Angela Merkel’s new cabinet, however, only one person, justice minister Katarina Barley, has a non-German parent – her father is British. 2. Women make up roughly 44 percent of the cabinet. Six out of 15 ministers in the new German cabinet are women – and Angela Merkel of course also remains chancellor. All in all, 43.8 percent of the cabinet are women, just like in the last cabinet. This fairly even split among genders is largely thanks to Angela Merkel’s conservatives, the CDU, who have staffed four out of seven cabinet positions with women, and the Social Democrats (SPD) – half of their six ministries are lead by women. The CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the CSU – which is known to be significantly more conservative than the CDU – solely sents male ministers… Read full this story
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