Archive — January 2017

Where the Most Capable Study

University rankings are traditionally led by US and UK institutions. But do their graduates really know that much? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development recently published the…

You have to work part-time on a pension

From 1999 to mid-2016, the number of German residents over 65 with a full-time job almost quadrupled. According to the latest data from the Federal Employment Agency (BA), these figures rose from…

How Germany Eats

An overabundance of cookbooks with gorgeous photos, internet blogs overflowing with recipes, trendy street food and farmers' markets – all these phenomena of the time are apparently widely…

Professional Inclination to Infidelity

What drives some members of the fair sex to seek pleasure outside of marriage – new love, a thirst for adventure, or simply sexual need? Psychologists may be able to answer this question. But a…

In Wolfsburg They Pay More

There is a significant territorial difference in the incomes of German residents. This follows from the official response of the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to a request from the…

Czech Republic Counts Foreigners

The Czech Statistical Office (ČSÚ) has released data on foreigners working in the country – their numbers, fields of employment, and average salaries. The report for the full calendar year (2015) was…

Part-time job during holidays

Look left – Neuschwanstein Castle. Look right – crystal clear Alpine lakes. That's roughly how Iryna from Kharkiv describes her holidays. Three years ago, she spent the summer in a Bavarian town near…

Ski Slopes with a German Flair

Winter sports enthusiasts from other countries often say that Germans can only be envied. They don't have to travel far to go skiing – their own ski resorts are enough. Although this season, snow in…

Canadian prospects

Europe faces childlessness

More than 20% of women born in the 1970s in southern Europe may remain childless. This is higher than the average in northern (15%) and western Europe (18%). According to a report published in…

Moravia Awaits Foreign Specialists

Last month, the Financial Times placed Brno, the capital of Czech Moravia, in its top list of cities for integrating foreigners. However, even after earning such an assessment, the South Moravian…

Refugee flow decreases

In the past year of 2016, the number of applications for refugee status in Switzerland sharply declined. At the same time, a record number of asylum seekers decided to withdraw from the procedure of…

Divided by a Common Language

Those for whom English is native sometimes allow themselves to speak in such a way that others simply have no chance of understanding them. Of those who speak English in the world today, a minority…

Foreign Switzerland

As is known, Switzerland is home to a total of approximately 2.3 million foreign nationals. And what about the country's major cities with a population of 50,000 or more? In all these localities, the…

Muslim New Year

«MebShop» – solving problems with buying a computer desk

How not to get lost in the huge world of computer furniture and buy exactly what you need? Before buying a desk, you should decide what kind of product you need.

Labor market filled with vacancies

The past year was a record year for the number of vacancies on the German labor market, but 2017 already promises to break the newly set maximum. Analysts from the ifo Institute for Economic Research…

Number of refugees declining

In Germany, 321,370 applications for asylum were registered in 2016. This is according to data cited by the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag. The number of asylum applications in Germany has…

A look at typical Switzerland

Typical Switzerland – what is it? What is a typical Swiss person like? And a typical Swiss woman? How should a foreigner who has come to Switzerland behave in order to be recognized and accepted by…

Europe counts salaries

The European Union's statistical office, Eurostat, analyzed the salary situation in EU countries and found that the highest earnings are in Luxembourg. For 2015, a specialist in the field of…

Run to Return

In all of 2015, 20,888 migrants who were denied the right to asylum were extradited from Germany. Last year, the number of deportees increased slightly, reaching 25,000 by mid-December. But this is…

Extend both childhood and old age

The Japanese Gerontological Society has proposed that people should be considered elderly only after 75 years, not 65 as currently. The reason is that in recent decades people have become…

Czechs fight for labor force

The Czech Republic is once again facing a dilemma regarding the employment of workers from Ukraine. The Czech consulate in Lviv cannot keep up with the flow of applicants – this has prompted the…

Financial assistance for holders of the Pole's Card

From the new year, holders of the Pole's Card can count on financial assistance allocated to cover rental costs in Poland if the application for a permanent residence permit was submitted after…