Comment by LatteLazy

One of the reasons this is important is that it's quite hard to get a visa for many EU Countries. If Germany opened a skilled\tech\finance visa program, you'd easily see double the current number. I'm not sure whether they've held off because they don't want to do it or as a show of goodwill for the "negotiations" but they would be doing themselves and many decent people a favour if they pulled the trigger. Brexiteers won't be reasoned with and being reasonable is seen as weakness by them.