In the 2008 fiscal year, more than 1 million people became US citizens - a record number in the last 100 years, CNN reports citing the Department of Homeland Security.
The Dutch government intends to create a special structure to combat fraud and money laundering in the real estate market. Thus, the authorities intend to tighten control over the real estate market…
In Europe, the growth in marijuana use has stopped, but residents of EU countries have started using more hard drugs such as heroin and cocaine. This is stated in the annual report of the European…
Visas
British authorities intend to tighten entry rules for foreign citizens. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced that she intends to close the country's doors to all who preach extremist views. The new…
Tourism
Life in Europe goes on as usual, and no financial crisis can stop it. In November, Europeans switch from beer to young wine, and then to mulled wine, they lie unusually much, set off fireworks…
Work
Due to the recession, the number of Poles temporarily residing in the UK will drop by a third in 2009. As The Daily Telegraph writes, advisers to the Polish government believe so. They warned Warsaw…
Money
The United States, which became the source of the global financial crisis, seems to be gradually recovering from its consequences. Last week, it was announced that the collapsed real estate market…
There are quite a few countries in the world that protect their real estate market with tough protectionist measures aimed at foreigners. For example, there are countries that simply forbid foreign…
It's good to be an Icelander: wherever you go, you meet relatives. The entire population descends from a few hundred families of Viking settlers. This allows specialists to easily trace the genetic…
Tourism
Ostap Bender's descendants have spread across the planet. So at any moment in every country of the world, a tourist faces the prospect of meeting enterprising locals seeking to extract money from him…
For about ten years from the mid-90s, housing markets in the US and many European countries were in a stage of rapid growth. During that period, prices in the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK, France, and…
Law zone
The third world war has begun. But this is not a war between countries for world domination. It's simply the world dividing into people who smoke and people who don't. Previously, the world was under…