A prize of EUR 1,000 will be awarded to every employee of a public transport company in Lombardy who finds someone among their fellow drivers who decides to work there. This original and motivating recruitment system was introduced due to a serious shortage of drivers in a large company offering transport throughout the Italian region.more

Payment company Visa is launching a debit card in the Netherlands for asylum seekers. "The card should make life easier for refugees," Visa said.more

Amersfoort in the central Netherlands has been named European City of the Year. This title is awarded by the Academy of Urban Planning in London, which rewards cities offering the best living conditions in Europe.more

In Iceland, after a series of tremors, a state of emergency was declared due to fears of the eruption of the Fagradalsfjall volcano. The city of Grindavik was evacuated. Meteorological services warn that large amounts of lava accumulated underground may come to the surface - the BBC reported yesterday.more

"Life. My Story in History" - this is the title of Pope Francis' autobiography, which will be published next spring in many countries, including Italy, the US, Mexico and Poland. Its publication has been announced by a British-American publishing house. The pope is working on the book with Italian Mediaset TV's Vatican specialist Fabio Marchese Ragona.more

The West must stop Russian dictator Vladimir Putin from opening another front in Europe, this time in the Balkans, said the American magazine "Foreign Affairs", referring to Serbia's relations with Russia.more

Ancient pathogens that have been preserved for millennia in Siberia's permafrost may reactivate with global warming, creating the risk of entirely new diseases, French scientist Jean-Michel Claverie told The Moscow Times portal.more

Polish tourists paid the least for accommodation in the EU in 2022, according to the latest Eurostat data. In 2022, EU residents made a total of 1.08 billion tourist trips with at least one overnight stay - it was shown.more

A lecturer at Concordia University in Montreal, Yanis the Arab, shouted at Jewish students: "go back to Poland, you f***s!" The incident occurred when "pro-Palestinian" students protested against a stand where Jewish students were handing out posters with photos of Israelis kidnapped by the terrorist Hamas, the Toronto Sun reported.more

Surgeons at New York University Hospital performed this procedure in May this year. the first-ever transplant of a whole human eye, transplanting the donor eye to the victim of a near-fatal accident, CBS reported on Thursday. The patient's body accepted the transplant, although it is not known whether it will be possible to restore vision in the transplanted eye.more

Pro-Palestinian protesters broke into the New York Times editorial office during a demonstration in New York's Mahattan, the NY Daily News reported.more

The Czech Republic will gain a new, faster rail link to the Baltic coast in 2024, the Mlada Fronta DNES (MFD) daily reported. Trains from Prague four times a day will go directly to Gdansk and Gdynia. The trip is expected to be three hours faster than with transfers.more

Greenland's shelf glaciers have lost more than a third of their volume, an international team of experts reports. The main cause is an increase in the temperature of the surrounding water.more

In 2023, France again became the largest wine producer in the world, overtaking Italy, where production of this drink decreased by 12%. – said the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) in its first assessment of the harvest this year.more

Poles no longer want to come to work in Norway. The Norwegian salary (which is paid in kroner) when converted to euros or zlotys 10 years ago was 50 percent higher, notes Norwegian public broadcaster NRK, citing employment agency Adecco.more

"El Nino," the worst drought in 120 years, and extreme temperatures reaching more than 40 degrees C in October and November, the highest in 20 years, have been destroying all forms of life in the Amazon's waters and land for weeks.more

A transgender person can be baptized and can also be a godparent and witness at a wedding, the Vatican's Dicastery (formerly Congregation) for the Doctrine of the Faith said in response to questions directed to it. The key office of the Roman Curia clarified that homosexuals living with another person can also be godparents and witnesses at a wedding.more

Spain's more than 48 million people are home to a record number of foreigners, according to a report released yesterday by the National Statistics Institute (INE) in Madrid. The government agency estimates their number at more than 6.4 million.more

The goal of Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7 was not to "improve the situation of the Palestinians," but to "completely change their situation," Taher El-Nounou, one of the organization's leaders permanently residing in Qatar, told the New York Times. He hopes for "permanent war" with Israel.more

Aggressive, critical and unfair bosses make employees less productive, with those whose priority is career development suffering more than employees whose priority is job security, according to a study by US researchers.more

The police have launched an investigation into the death of a 40-year-old Pole from Bunschoten-Spakenburg in the central part of the Netherlands. "We are investigating the circumstances of the death and do not rule out a crime," said Tom Heutz from the Midden-Nederland police unit.more

In Sweden, the number of refusals to grant citizenship to immigrants is increasing due to the threat to national security. This year, the SAPO special services issued a negative opinion in 600 cases, which is the most in history.more

The issue of migration is currently by far the biggest problem for Germans - numerous surveys indicate this. An attempt to find solutions to the crisis was a summit of the federal government and the prime ministers of the federal states, during which many changes to the law were announced.more

Saxons are already visiting the 1st Saxon Christmas Market. However, increasingly earlier fairs arouse reluctance among Christian churches - notes the "Bild" daily. "I don't think it would be good to celebrate Christmas at the beginning of November," said Pastor Stefan Schwarzenberg from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Grossroehrsdorf.more

Poland is building the largest army in Europe - said the Dutch daily "NRC" in its latest issue. The newspaper noted that Poland spends more money on its armed forces than any other European country.more