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Tourism

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…

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Immigration

Canadian prospects

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Everyday life

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…

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News

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…

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Immigration

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…

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Culture

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…

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Integration

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…

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Curiosities

Muslim New Year

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Shopping

«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.

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Work

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…

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Immigration

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…

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Country guide

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…

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