German Chancellor Olaf Scholz defended his government’s migration policy in remarks to parliament on Wednesday morning and emphasized the county’s need to attract skilled foreigners. “There is no country in the world with a shrinking working population that has economic growth. That is the truth we are confronted with,” Scholz said in the Bundestag, as Germany’s parliament is known. His remarks come amid tense, acrimonious debate in Berlin over migration and asylum policy. On Tuesday evening, cross-party talks between Scholz’s coalition and the centre-right opposition collapsed with bitter cri…