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Integration

European Union has gotten rid of 'second-class Europeans'

The labor market of Old Europe will open for workers from the new EU countries. This decision was made in Brussels by the economics ministers of the EU countries. The condition is strictly stipulated…

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Airbus

European Court upholds air travel privacy

Providing US authorities with personal data of airline passengers departing from EU countries to the US has no legal basis. This is the ruling of the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. The…

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Europe loses luggage Airbus

Europe loses luggage

Losses of baggage by airlines in Europe are growing year by year. Already today, about seven pieces of baggage disappear on each flight, and in summer the situation will only worsen, according to…

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Estonia introduced the status of long-term resident of the European Union Immigration

Estonia introduced the status of long-term resident of the European Union

Persons without Estonian citizenship and third-country nationals who have permanent residence permits in Estonia have received the status of long-term resident of the European Union as of June 1. On…

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Immigration

Europe shuts its doors to refugees with a list of safe countries

Europe is tired of refugees and intends to close the gates to many of them. Justice and interior ministers of European Union countries are drawing up a list of states whose citizens will henceforth…

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Constitution scares Europeans News

Constitution scares Europeans

The adoption of a single constitution for the European Union is becoming less and less realistic. A year after the failure of the main all-European law in referendums in France and Holland, the…

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Integration

The 'Carpathian Tiger' Asks to Be Caged

Over recent years, Slovakia has been given any number of rapturous epithets: 'the Ireland of the East,' 'the European Detroit,' and even 'the Carpathian Tiger.' This small country, which decided…

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Immigrants Also Age News

Immigrants Also Age

According to the European Union, in forty years a third of EU citizens will be people over 60. If so, who will feed and support them?

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What to feed a child abroad Tourism

What to feed a child abroad

“Children drank Fanta” – there was such a song in the early repertoire of the band “Nogu Svelo”. With a very sad ending, as the columnist for the magazine “Voyage and Rest” notes. What’s most…

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London "Behind Glass" Country guide

London "Behind Glass"

Visitors to London are most surprised by the abundance of outdoor surveillance cameras: they say that every tenth television eye in the world is British. They are accustomed to calling them "CCTV"…

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News

Main news of the issue ("zagranitsa" No. 334)

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Society of Countless Benefits Country guide

Society of Countless Benefits

In their pursuit of equality, Swedish Social Democrats effectively built a welfare state. It is responsible for providing quality services to all citizens in a number of important areas: education…

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Strauss, Muse and everything else Tourism

Strauss, Muse and everything else

Music lovers who find themselves in Europe in June can only be envied. They will be treated to Bach, Bizet, Brahms, Verdi, Haydn, Handel, Mozart, Strauss and Schubert. Fans of contemporary music…

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