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Everyday life
Unlike the south, poverty is far less widespread in northern Europe. Poverty is almost invisible on the streets of Scandinavian cities, and the numbers confirm this. Only 10-12% of the population of…
Everyday life
Latvia, a country with a population of two million, suffered greatly from the crisis. But even before the crisis, the share of poor in the country's population was the largest in the European Union…
Everyday life
Education is becoming one of the first victims of poverty – not only in Latvia or Germany, but also in Southern Greece. One of the oldest members of the European Union (since 1981), Greece still…
Money
Residents of Germany still keep billions of Deutsche marks in their piggy banks, writes Russkaya Germaniya. And experts are seriously considering the theoretical possibility of returning to the…
Immigration
With the start of the new year, the Greek government announced its intention to build a three-meter-high fence on the border with Turkey to prevent illegal migrants from entering the country. In…
Everyday life
An example of an entire nation that ran up debts in better times and suddenly fell into poverty is Hungary. In 2008, it experienced a sharp drop in the value of its national currency, bringing the…
Everyday life
Europe's poor are not like the poor in developing countries. Nevertheless, as Expert notes, their life is hard and humiliating, and only an African homeless person could truly envy it. To understand…
Everyday life
Since joining the European Economic Community in 1986, Portugal has remained one of the poorest European countries. Poverty here is visible to the naked eye – in slums without running water or sewage…
Immigration
Among immigrants in Norway, there are more unemployed, as well as those receiving social assistance and living below the poverty line. Therefore, a number of experts argue that the government is not…
Culture
The New Year began with several notable European exhibitions: Gazeta.Ru highlights "Painting Outdoors: Myths and Reality" at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which tells about the difficult…
Technology
Every day each of us is surrounded by a huge number of various things, from small household items to furniture and large household appliances. But before they end up with us, most of these items have…
Technology
Directing the style of a voice-over narrator hired, for example, to voice a dog food ad is like directing a scene in a multi-million dollar blockbuster. Well, or almost the same. Let's take a closer…