The German army has been suffering for years from a shortage of qualified personnel. The problem became particularly acute after the abolition of compulsory military service in 2011 and the…
Germany has presented the latest "Education Report" (Bildungsbericht 2018), which the ministries of the 16 states prepare every two years together with the federal agency. According to the report…
Last week, the media in Austria, followed by other European countries, published the results of a study conducted by scientists from the Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences…
In Germany, there are 900 free food distribution points, regularly used by up to 1.5 million needy elderly people. This is 23% of the total number of pensioners in the country, compared to 12.3% in…
Angela Merkel has been elected Federal Chancellor of Germany for the fourth time. Merkel has been serving as head of the German government since November 2005. The new cabinet of the Federal Republic…
Several years ago, Switzerland adopted in a referendum the 'initiative against criminal foreigners' launched by the conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP), which demanded the immediate deportation…
The scale of labor migration in Ukraine is estimated at up to three million people. The growth of this indicator last year is explained by the difficult economic situation of the country after the…
In 2017, the Czech Republic retained its place among the five fastest-growing economies in the European Union. The main threat to the country's rapid development remains a labor shortage, which the…
The number of workers from Ukraine on the Polish labor market is constantly growing. Most often they work in construction and industrial processing, agriculture, as well as in food service…
In Germany, last year saw record-low unemployment and record-high employment, and experts are confident that the boom on the German labor market will continue in 2018. This means that the shortage of…
After the collapse of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, many new countries emerged in Eastern Europe. In Western Europe, on the contrary, the strength of national states seemed unshakable. In fact…
There are about 57 million expats worldwide – qualified professionals who left their homeland to work in another country. And for the fourth year in a row, analysts of the world's largest expat…