An information and analytics digest for everyone going abroad or staying home

News

News

Poland Faces Labor Shortage

From January next year, the government in Warsaw will allow all EU citizens free access to the Polish labor market. This also applies to those countries that previously closed their labor markets to…

241
News

Ukrainian Ostarbeiters paid €865 million

With funds from the Ukrainian National Fund 'Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation', more than €865 million have been paid to victims of slave and forced labor during World War II. As reported at a…

174
News

Youth Unemployment on the Rise

According to a study 'Global Youth Employment Trends' conducted by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the global youth unemployment rate has risen sharply over the past decade, reaching a…

207
News

€500 Banknote Could Be Outlawed

MEPs are concerned about the growing circulation of the largest banknote denomination, €500. MEPs suspect that these banknotes are mainly used for money laundering. But the main problem, experts say…

204
News

Africa left without glaciers

Africa's two highest points – Kilimanjaro and Kenya – have almost lost their ice cover. If deforestation and atmospheric pollution are not stopped, they will be completely bare within 25-50 years…

216
News

Egypt changes entry rules for some CIS countries

For tourists from a number of CIS countries, the conditions for obtaining visas to Egypt have been tightened. As explained in the Consular Department of the Egyptian Embassy in Moscow, they will have…

216
News

New EU members not allowed into Schengen

The idea of postponing the expansion of the Schengen area by at least two years was voiced at a meeting of EU interior and justice ministers in the Finnish city of Tampere. Some high-ranking…

178
News

Tourists flee Egypt

Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has urged its citizens to 'exercise particular vigilance in Egypt due to the high level of terrorist threat there'.

172
News

Italy: Criminal Paradise

The government of Romano Prodi came to power in Italy not long ago, but has already caused the strongest discontent among the majority of Italians. The ruling social-democratic bloc could think of…

186
News

Main news of the issue (abroad No. 345)

201
News

Main news of the issue (abroad №344)

185
News

Biometric Passports Already Hacked

Passport and visa departments around the world, it seems, will have to abandon the idea of biometric passports – electronic chips that store unique anthropological data of a person.

266