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6.0KVirtual Events 2020: Pandemic opens biggest tech, startup conferences to global audiences
Dispatches Europe usually focuses on Europe. But on 25 March with the first virtual FasTrackathon, we realized we were thinking too small....
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4.6KSarah Nagaty in Lisbon: Why toxic positivity will not help us cope with the pandemic
As an Egyptian living in Portugal, I am closely following the situation in two different countries on two different continents. My social...
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4.6KExpat Essentials: Dispatches Europe’s one-stop guide to residence visas and more
Though we still see ourselves as a startup, Dispatches Europe went live in 2015 with a post about an American expat living...
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3.1KInka Piegsa-Quischotte: Does Spain have a grip on the coronavirus crisis? We’re about to find out ….
The government tries. They try hard. But only the next few weeks will show if they succeed, because Spain has arrived at...
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3.2KExpat Essentials: Sweden is open, but should you visit? Here are the facts
(Editor’s note: Terry Boyd also contributed to this post on Sweden.) At the moment, Sweden is one of the few countries in...
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18.0KExpat Essentials: The latest on what countries across Europe are doing to stop the coronavirus pandemic (updated)
(Editor’s note: We’re closing out this post for two reasons. The first is, most countries in Europe are recovering swiftly from the...
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4.1KUlrike Lemmin-Woolfrey in Paris: ‘I Will Survive’ becomes our theme song as France extends lockdown
Last Monday night, an unprecedented 35 million-plus people across France watched as President Macron took to the TV screens at two minutes...
