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Education

Germany loses students

The examination session at German universities has ended. However, students left for the holidays with heavy hearts. The reason is fear of the future. Not so long ago, Germany had to confront a…

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Immigration

How Illegal Immigrants Are Seen Off from Germany

It is not so easy to expel an illegal alien from Germany. While the deportation procedure is being prepared and lasts, the state pays the illegal immigrant social benefits. Cologne alone spends up to…

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Immigration

It's time for Germany to deal with illegal immigrants

The three-month program in Spain to grant residence and work permits to illegal migrants in the country has prompted German politicians to begin a discussion on this issue in Germany as well.

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Immigration

Trial balloon regarding contingent refugees

Recently, various German media outlets have published reports about an allegedly impending significant tightening of the admission rules for contingent refugees. The criteria for admitting Jewish…

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Education

Will education in Germany become fee-based?

In many countries around the world, fee-based education no longer surprises anyone. Germany, however, still remains an island where everyone can count on receiving free education (at least a first…

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Work

Ostarbeiters to Receive Second Tranche by Year-End

By the end of the year, the 'Understanding and Reconciliation' fund will begin paying the second tranche of compensation to former forced laborers of the Third Reich. This was announced by the head…

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News

Sociology of consumption: how much Germans earn, spend and save

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Immigration

German ministers take aim at tourists and refugees

Last week, two German interior ministers - the Bavarian and the federal one - were in the spotlight of the press. As reports Russkaya Germania, both made statements that could not go unnoticed.

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Immigration

How I didn't become a "locomotive" to Germany

That a Jew is not only a nationality, but also a means of transportation, I vaguely suspected even before coming to Germany—standing in line at the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of…

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Immigration

Adoption in the Process of a Family of Late Resettlers Emigrating to Germany

In today's article, I would like to introduce readers to a nearly classic problematic case in the area of admitting late resettlers. To illustrate, I would like to explain this constellation with a…

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News

Germany: Opening Doors Wider, but Adding Guards at the Entrance

It took no less than four years for Germany's ‘red-green’ government and the conservative opposition to agree on one issue. That issue was the new law ‘On Immigration’, whose adoption is now…

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Immigration

Germany will not become a classic immigration country

Representatives of Germany's ruling and opposition parties have finally agreed on the text of the future German immigration law. Highly qualified specialists will now be able to obtain permanent…

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