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In 2022, around 168,500 people were naturalised in Germany. This is 28 per cent more than in the previous year. Not since 2002 have so many naturalisations been registered in a single year, the Federal Statistical Office reported today. Syrians made up the largest group of naturalised citizens in 2022.more

29 per cent of parents have a clear vision of the work their offspring would do in the future, and 61 per cent of respondents do not want to interfere in their child's choice of profession, according to the Pracuj.pl survey. A third of parents worry that their children will make the same career mistakes as them.more

A Christian could be an "influencer" - this was highlighted in a document published yesterday by the Vatican's Dicastery for Communication. At the same time, the Vatican acknowledged the concern about divisive communication coming from leaders in the Church.more

President Andrzej Duda, Warsaw mayor, PO deputy leader Rafał Trzaskowski and Poland 2050 leader Szymon Holownia are the leaders of the May trust ranking, according to a CBOS poll. PO leader Donald Tusk, PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro (SP) are the most distrusted.more

Research conducted by CBOS shows that 32 percent. surveyed women aged 18-45 plan to have children in the near or long term, while 68 percent. there are no such plans. Couples do not want to decide to have a child at this time for many reasons.more

The 2020 census shows that the US population was older and there were fewer children under the age of 5 than in 2010 or 2000. The number of people 65 and older increased at the fastest rate and one in six people is over 65.more

50 million people are victims of modern slavery. 28 million are victims of bonded labour, 22 million of forced marriage. 12 million victims are children, say the authors of the Global Slavery Index. The Walk Free Foundation published the latest edition of the report on Wednesday, AP reported.more

If current levels of migration in both countries continue, in 2025. The UK - for the first time since data has existed - will overtake France in terms of population, the i newspaper reported yesterday.more

Parcel delivery fraud is “by far” the most common scam faced by the public so far this year, according to Citizens Advice figures. Almost half of people targeted by scammers (49%) found themselves involved in a malicious parcel delivery scam, with fraudsters attempting to get hold of personal information or bank details.more

Doctors will be required to give patients options including travelling further for healthcare or going to private alternatives as Rishi Sunak tries to fulfil his promise to cut NHS waiting times.more

More than 80 per cent of Polish companies employ Ukrainian nationals; in more than a third of companies, the percentage of Ukrainians employed ranges between 10-20 per cent of the total staff, according to a study by analytical centre Gremi Personal.more

With the upcoming 2024 Olympic Games being held in Paris, the government wants to displace thousands of homeless, mainly migrants from the Paris region to the province, arguing that the number of hotels willing to host them is falling. This approach raises doubts among humanitarian organisations, French media reported today.more

Polish children are lower than their peers in other countries in our region. This surprised me, because until now we have only focused on the body mass index BMI and we knew that Polish children are putting on weight at the fastest rate in Europe," noted Professor Anna Fijałkowska from the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.more

Despite nearly three million unemployed people in Spain, more than a third of companies are struggling to find workers. Hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs complain of a shortage of labour; in the hotel and construction industry this deficit is more than 50 per cent. - according to the latest Business Activity Survey presented by the Bank of Spain.more

More than 35,000 cases of sexual misconduct or sexual violence have been reported in the last five years in public health facilities in England, with 58 percent of perpetrators being patients and medical staff being victims, The Guardian revealed today.more

Eighty-one percent of respondents declared that John Paul II is a moral authority for them, including 58 percent who stated this strongly. Fourteen percent of respondents held the opposite view, according to a new CBOS poll.more

Patients will soon be able to use the NHS app to opt for private hospital treatment in an effort to cut waiting times, according to a report.more

The UK public are now among the least likely internationally to believe in God, following a long-term decline in belief since the 1980s, according to new study by the Policy Institute at King’s College London. more

88 percent of respondents believe that Poland is a country where they live safely. 96 percent also believe that their immediate neighborhood is safe and peaceful. 83 percent have not been the victim of any crime in the past five years, according to the CBOS survey.more

Death by loneliness threatens 1.5 million South Koreans, according to a study released yesterday by the Seoul Health Ministry. The government wants to accurately estimate the scale of the problem and prepare countermeasures, the 'Korea Times' newspaper portal reported.more

Less than half of LGBTQ+ people in the UK would say they feel safe where they live, a daunting new survey has found. more

More than 180,000 Londoners are employed on zero hour contracts, official figures revealed on Tuesday. They showed a rise in workers in the capital in jobs employed in this way from 118,000 in January to March 2021, to 158,000 a year later, and 181,000 for this period of 2023.more

Kolobrzeg, Gdansk, Mielno, Jastrzebia Gora, Ostroda, Ilawa, Zakopane - these are the most popular destinations for this year's vacations, according to data from booking portal Travelist.pl.more

Let's face it, we are all getting pretty fed up with this cost of living crisis. It's severely impacting many people's quality of life, with many living pay cheque to pay cheque. It's gone on long enough now that a whopping two in three workers have admitted they are open to moving to a new city after evaluating the cost of where they live and work.more

E.On Next, Good Energy and Octopus Energy have paid £8 million over compensation failures after lengthy delays in producing final bills to more than 100,000 customers when they switched suppliers, regulator Ofgem said.more