Germany needs 16 million additional workers until 2050 that need to be imported via immigration OR the overall economic output could shrink due to workers' shortages. At least this is what politics are saying.
Yesterday, the German government agreed on easier migration laws, generally directed at immigrants from Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and the STAN-countries (those are the countries already making up 80% of legal immigrants to Germany from outside the EU).
Here are the general outlines of how you can get to Germany legally (illegal you can get by just driving here...):
A. High skilled uni graduates in certain STEM fields with a job offer of 50,000 euros or above: this type of visa will remain as it is today, not German skills are required, just background checks and a few bureaucratic forms. NO GERMAN LANGUAGE SKILLS REQUIRED.
B. NEW: high skilled people in certain STEM fields / IT workers with a job offer below 50,000 euro - they can now also come even without an uni degree if they have years of experience in the field, but it is unclear how this will be checked. NO GERMAN LANGUAGE SKILLS REQUIRED
C. NEW: anyone with any uni degree (no requirement if STEM or not) or any other qualification, as long as they have a job lined up in Germany and have German language skills GERMAN LANGUAGE REQUIRED, JOB REQUIRED
D. NEW: anyone with an uni degree in certain fields, or professional training in certain fields required in German, German language skills and financial resources for at least 6 months... even without a job, can come to Germany to find a job GERMAN LANGUAGE SKILLS BUT NO JOB
E: OLD: students at German unis can come and study if accepted by German unis based on their school records