Following new government plans, asylum seekers and refugees or low earners from ethnic minority backgrounds will have to pay for English language lessons in the United Kingdom – an offer that was free of charge up to now for integrative reasons.
In his recent “Global Report on Aging”, Finnish researcher Kimmo Leppo found out that, due to its fertility history and recent increases in longevity, the Finnish population is aging more rapidly than most populations in Europe. The proportion of people over 65 will increase from 16 to 27 percent in 2030.
Franz Müntefering hatte zu Jahresbeginn reichlich Grund zur Freude: die Homepage seines Bundesarbeitsministeriums erreichte beim Selbsttest auf Grundlage der BIT(Barrierefreie Informationstechnik)-Verordnung ein Traumergebnis von 96 aus 100 möglichen Punkten.
More than 180 countries around the world issue paper banknotes. Nearly all of them use specifications such as different sizes, different positions of a metallic strip or intaglio printing in order to make it easier for disabled people to distinguish between the different denomination. Yet, there is one country that doesn’t give disabled people the […]
The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) has presented its Annual Report 2006. The report looked at racial discrimination and racist crime data and found out that migrants and ethnic minorities remain discriminated against across the EU in employment, education and housing. However,
Sweden democrat leaders in the city council of Malmö have proposed to pay immigrants if they leave the country. The party has proposed a range of policies to clamp down on immigrants in the Skåne region, including a total ban on immigration and a stop to publicly funded integration programmes.
After former British foreign secretary Jack Straw revealed that he asked female constituents to remove the niqab during interviews with him, a heated debate was started in Great Britain about a possible ban of the veil in public – a similar law has been created by the Dutch Government before.
Vier große deutsche Unternehmen haben eine gemeinsame Diversity-Charta unterzeichnet. Vertreter von DaimlerChrysler, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche BP und Deutsche Telekom signierten im Bundeskanzleramt das Dokument unter dem Titel “Diversity als Chance”.
Auf scharfe Kritik traf der Vorstoß des Kölner Kardinals Joachim Meisner, der ein Verbot von multireligiösen Feiern an katholischen Schulen erlassen hat. Der von Papst Johannes Paul II. er-nannte Kirchenmanager, der als Freund von Papst Benedikt XVI. gilt, hatte gegenüber katholi-schen Religionslehrern angeordnet, ab sofort keine gemeinsamen Gebete mehr mit Juden oder Muslimen abzuhalten.
Nein – Religion ist „kein Thema“ in Deutschland. Seit ein paar Hundert Jahren herrscht Augsburger Frieden und die Säkularisation wurde auch irgendwann vollzogen. Wann war das eigentlich? Und wie konsequent wurde sie umgesetzt?
