Refugees arriving in the country must respect its laws and values, German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes. However, 'society should also respect certain rules and needs' of foreign migrants, she…
The Berlin Institute for European Politics (IEP) and the Warsaw Institute of Public Policy (ISP) conducted a joint study of Ukrainian diasporas in Poland and Germany. Its authors believe that…
According to the EASY data system, into which any refugee crossing the German border is entered by a federal police officer, 1.1 million refugees arrived in Germany in 2015. But only 350 thousand…
Until recently, integration centers for foreigners in the Czech Republic were, if not entirely a theoretical venture, then often did not work as expected. Not to mention the district administrations…
A year ago, the Czech Republic accepted the first group of ethnic Czechs who moved from Ukraine to the homeland of their ancestors under a compatriot resettlement programme. The military conflict…
In January 2016, the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) published the results of a study aimed at finding out how the lives of migrants who received political asylum in Germany turned…
Switzerland, which is among the top 10 countries offering the best living conditions for foreign professionals according to the HSBC Expat Explorer survey, turned out to be second-to-last in…
A comic about the travels of an Afghan boy fleeing to Europe through Iran and Turkey, or a film about a Kurdish girl Shadi, whom her own mother sends to faraway Sweden, are designed to draw the…
In the eyes of most Europeans, Sweden is almost the only EU country that always welcomes migrants and refugees. As 'Russkaya Germaniya' notes, some parties and politicians express a different…
During the period of the relevant law, about 140,000 people have received Pole's Cards. The most applications for this document came from citizens of Ukraine and Belarus. According to 'Polish Radio'…
Leading economist Marcel Fratzscher, policy advisor and president of the German Institute for Economic Research DIW in Berlin, sees the influx of immigrants as an opportunity for the German economy…
According to statistics, every 13th Pole owns a company. Opening and running a business in Poland is easy, even if you are a foreigner. A vivid example is Alexey Podorozhny, a young businessman from…