#bureaucracy

#bureaucracy

In stark contrast to many countries particularly English-speaking ones where tuition fees can run you up a bill into the thousands every semester, studying at a German university comes at a typical price tag in the hundreds, yes hundreds, of euros per year.Rather than explicit tuition fees, students at German public universities, even non-EU international ones, pay an administrative fee of around 300 a semester, which often includes a transport ticket.

In stark contrast to many countries particularly English-speaking ones where tuition fees can run you up a bill into the thousands every semester, studying at a German university comes at a typical price tag in the hundreds, yes hundreds, of euros per year.Rather than explicit tuition fees, students at German public universities, even non-EU international ones, pay an administrative fee of around 300 a semester, which often includes a transport ticket.

The Talking France podcast is back with a special episode looking - of course - at the political crisis engulfing France.From parliament to street protests, we'll be looking at what is going on in France, what happens next and whether tourists should be worried.Published: 22 March 2023 18:53 CET Updated: 25 March 2023 08:33 CET Host Ben McPartland is joined by The Local France editor Emma Pearson, journalist Genevieve Mansfield and political expert John Lichfield to look at everything that is happening in France this week.

Ukraine's Western backers warn that Kyiv is facing a critical shortage of 155-millimetre howitzer shells as it fires thousands each day in its fight against a grinding Russian offensive.Ministers meeting with their Ukrainian counterpart Oleksiy Reznikov in Stockholm were debating a three-pronged push to meet Kyiv's immediate needs and bolster Europe's defence industry for the longer term.

France is among the top 10 hardest countries to get set up in after first moving for foreigners, according to a recent survey by InterNations a platform that connects foreign residents abroad.The survey, called Where expats struggle most to get settled, used survey responses from people living abroad to rank countries based on how easy they are for dealing with administration, language, housing and digital life.

Kathleen Parker, who's originally from Queensland, Australia, has been helping international residents get settled in Germany since 2012 through her business Red Tape Translation.But she says coming to the Bundesrepublik as a foreigner has actually gotten harder and not easier over the past decade.When I started [my work], apartments were still available, Parker told The Local's Germany in Focus podcast.