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How much do children cost in Germany? Work

How much do children cost in Germany?

Children are an unaffordable luxury. This point of view is shared by more and more German married couples. As Deutsche Welle notes, even those over 30-40 years old often prefer not to think about…

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Russian traditions of Germany: four New Years in one night Curiosities

Russian traditions of Germany: four New Years in one night

Catholic-Protestant Germany, together with all other countries of the European Union, celebrates Christmas on December 25: it is this holiday, and not the New Year that follows it, that is the main…

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Education

Quest for a German Student Visa

Suppose you have seriously decided to obtain a higher education in Germany. You have researched everything about universities, prepared documents on your own or with the help of an agency, and…

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Law zone

Frameworks of Freedom in the German Internet

Freedom of expression is a right enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as in Article 5 of the German Basic Law. However, the freedom to openly express one's…

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Work

Pandemic is no excuse for idleness

The lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic has led to job cuts in the student labor market. Life in the service sector, where they usually work part-time, has come to a standstill: cafes…

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Education

A Recognition That Is Beneficial in Every Respect

The German labor market is seeing more and more foreign specialists. Recognition of a diploma obtained abroad is an important condition for employment in Germany. A recent study by the Institute for…

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Work

Labor market: fortune-telling on specialists

What awaits the German labor market? Where will there be a shortage, and where a surplus of personnel? Which specialists will Germany need? German analysts looked 20 years ahead and made a forecast…

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Real estate

Own housing – for half of Germans

Thanks to historically low interest rates on bank loans, especially mortgages, the dream of one's own four walls has become accessible to more residents of Germany. Nevertheless, for the first time…

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Education

How foreign languages are taught in Germany

How is the study of foreign languages in Germany, to what extent and how is it taught in German schools? The answer to this question is not clear-cut. The fact is that education, including school…

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Education

The Biggest German Dictionary

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm (Wilhelm und Jacob Grimm) are known to everyone from childhood. But there is another work that scholars worked on for many years. Unwieldy and multi-page – the…

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Country guide

A Nation of Total Order

"Ordnung muss sein! – There must be order!" – this phrase is known even to those who have never started learning German. It is considered an expression of the very spirit of Germany. Ask any…

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Integration

Migration Portrait of Germany

"My homeland is Ukraine, but Germany is also my homeland," says famous rapper Capital Bra. On the YouTube channel of the "Germania" project, he and other German influencers from migrant families talk…

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