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#Germany

Education

German authorities to provide assistance to students

German Education Minister Anja Karliczek intends to support students at German universities during the coronavirus pandemic by providing them with loans. She made this statement on Thursday, April…

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Visas

Germany Not Letting Everyone In Yet

The Europe-wide entry ban due to measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus infection applies to citizens of third countries and will remain in effect at least until May 15. What do the…

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Technology

Lovers of Electronic Waste

Residents of Germany keep about 200 million unused mobile phones at home – twice as many as five years ago. On average, every German has two and a half mobile phones lying in drawers, cabinets…

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Tourism

The Year of the Canceled Oktoberfest

Bavaria's leadership canceled the world's largest folk festival – Oktoberfest, which was scheduled for September 19 to October 4, 2020. The possibility of erecting tents and pavilions on the…

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Analysis

How Germans Survive the Epidemic

The coronavirus continues to claim lives around the world, including in Germany. However, in this largest EU country, the number of deaths remains surprisingly low, which has caused astonishment in…

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Immigration

Quarantine not prescribed for refugees

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the new coronavirus infection a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Since March 16, strict controls have been temporarily in effect on Germany's borders…

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Work

Workers to be flown in by plane

German farmers and other agricultural business owners in Germany are panicking: vegetables and fruits are growing, but there is no one to harvest them this year! Every year, more than 300,000…

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Education

Quarantine Puts Germany to the Test

The swift and comprehensive shutdown of public life across Germany has directly affected its youth – in particular, those school students who are due to take their final exams this year. The spread…

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Work

Remote work is not an extension of school, you need to work

Today, as Europeans try to minimize contact with each other in the face of the epidemic, many employers are moving their employees to remote work. However, working from home is not a novelty at all…

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Work

New law – new opportunities

Starting March 1, a new law facilitating employment for personnel from non-EU countries will come into effect in Germany. It fundamentally changes the status of foreign professionals with vocational…

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Work

Educated earn more

Who earns more in Germany: those with a higher education or those without? The results of a study published in Germany, conducted by the Institute for Applied Economic Research in Tübingen (IAW)…

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Curiosities

If we don't go, at least we'll eat

In 2019, the German concern Volkswagen produced more sausages than cars. Over the past twelve months, at its main plant in Wolfsburg, the company manufactured about 6.8 million units of this meat…

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