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#Germany

Integration

Innovators among migrants

Germany is facing an acute labor shortage, so the influx of foreign workers has been steadily increasing in recent years. But how innovative are the labor migrants coming to the country? How many of…

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Education

How to become a German pilot

To avoid a shortage of personnel, German airlines plan to train and hire a record number of pilots. Candidates without German citizenship also have a chance.

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Curiosities

Flute – and a Denture as a Bonus

Often, passengers of urban transport leave things in carriages that are simply unimaginable, showing how far from reality the owner's thoughts were when leaving a tram or bus, if they managed to…

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Everyday life

Student New Year holidays

Between Christmas and New Year, students in Germany have holidays – two weeks of long-awaited freedom. You can with a clear conscience forget the way to the library, put textbooks on the shelf and…

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Curiosities

Bureaucrats Almost Ruined Christmas

Nearly four thousand children in the Bavarian town of Roth, a half-hour drive from Nuremberg, are deeply upset: 'evil uncles' from the city hall have forbidden them from hanging letters to Santa…

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Work

Germany to Accept Specialists

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Curiosities

Police officers fail German language

An inspection of the Police Academy initiated by the Berlin Senate unexpectedly revealed that cadets have poor command of the German language. In connection with the results, it was decided to…

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Education

German universities break records

After school – to university, not to vocational school. This trend in Germany has persisted for many years. And new data confirms it. In the winter semester 2018/2019, German universities set a new…

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Immigration

Germany to Recheck Refugees

According to estimates by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), a total of about 200,000 asylum seekers will arrive in the Federal Republic of Germany this year. For all of them, as…

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Everyday life

Work instead of benefits

Discussions about the need to abolish the Hartz IV unemployment benefit due to its ineffectiveness have been ongoing in Germany for over a year. Instead of Hartz IV, it is proposed to introduce a…

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Immigration

Generous Offer to 'Returnees'

Since February 2017, the German Federal Ministry of the Interior has been running a campaign called 'Your Country, Your Future, Now', which provides financial payments to asylum seekers in Germany…

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Everyday life

Higher Education – Higher Salary

Who earns the most in Germany? Experts from the German Economic Institute (Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft) compared salaries of specialists with higher education for 2017. Doctors lead the top…

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