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959Inka 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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893Expat 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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10.3KExpat 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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1.8KUlrike 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...
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1.8KJackie Harding: Three new destinations, three happy returns as I plan post-pandemic travel
Travel seems so unrealistic at this stage of the global coronavirus crisis, and I’m, as I am sure are others, yearning to...
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1.1KHot tip: Funded Eindhoven-based energy spinoff from TNO and TU/e searching for entrepreneurial CEO
Okay, we can all agree on one thing – we’re living through interesting times. But in innovation centers from Barcelona to Cluj,...
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998Expat Essentials: New Splitcha app will let you shop online in any country
Okay, the pandemic has you trapped in a country far from home and you’re running out of stuff. The stores are closed....
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857Calum Nicholson: Of course, we should do everything to stop coronavirus. But maybe …
(Editor’s note: This post on the ethical issues posed by coronavirus measures originally appeared in The Economic Times. It’s reposted here with...
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1.7KPutin’s People: Russian expat ‘journalist’ depicts host Netherlands as a dystopian hellhole
One of the weirder expat phenomena are expats who’ve come to free and affluent European countries such as the Netherlands from oppressive...
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2.9KLetícia Batista: ‘My clueless trip to Copenhagen in the middle of a pandemic,’ Pt. 2
(Editor’s note: See Pt. 1 of Letícia’s post here about her ill-fated trip to Copenhagen at the beginning of the pandemic.) Now...
