Author: The New European
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“A chain is just as strong as its single links” Interview with Osman Kimil
Osman Kimil, founder of Unipack, has taken the initiative to start a program of hiring refugees in his company in Germany: thanks to his New European background, he was able to quickly grasp what refugees have gone through in their lives. We interviewed him to know more about this project and his life.
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Mentoring for migrants: integration of migrants into the Austrian labour market
“Mentoring for Migrants” is a unique project launched by the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in 2008. To date, nearly 1.800 mentoring pairs have been formed, and numerous mentees have already gained a foothold on the Austrian labour market, not least thanks to support from their mentors.
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Harnessing the skills of migrant workers in Sweden: the case of Entry Hub and Randstad
One of the most recent initiatives sponsored by Randstad in the field of sustainability and integration is Entry Hub, a Swedish project that aims at creating physical spaces where refugees and immigrants can exchange knowledge and build new skills, while being in contact with potential employers. Read our interview to know more about the project.
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All «Together» for World Refugee Day
On World Refuge Day, held every year on June 20th, the world commemorates the strength and courage of these millions of persons forced to flee their homes and the compassion of those welcoming them. It is the perfect time to show that public opinion is behind these forcibly displaced families and to highlight the many…
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The EU’s support to migrant entrepreneurship. Interview with Lowri Evans, European Commission.
The European institutions are dedicating increasing attention to how to foster migrant and inclusive entrepreneurship at the EU level. To know more about this support, The New European talked to Lowry Evans, Director-General at DG Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and Growth (DG GROW).
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The UN Team in Brussels runs Together for Migrants and Refugees
Under the banner “TOGETHER let’s promote respect, security and dignity for refugees and migrants” the UN Migration Agency (IOM), in partnership with the UNRIC, organized a team of 50 people who participated in the 20km Brussels half-marathon on the 28th of May.
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From ex-Yugoslavia to a not yet multi-ethnic Germany to starting up at the peak of economic crisis
When asked when he first thought of starting up in the automotive industry, Muamer Babajic jokes, “I didn’t think, because if I had known what I had to go through I’d have probably never started!”
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The yogurt enterprise started with €30 which dreams of becoming a cultural and economic bridge with west Africa
For the Founders of Barikamà the still quietness of Casale di Martignano — less than 40km from Rome — is the next chapter after the notorious Rosarno revolt, which in 2010 denounced a sad reality of racism and exploitation in southern Italy.
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United in Diversity?
Europe is a continent of deep historical differences, based on geography and religion. But what is on the way to destroy the European project is a new series of economy-based divides. The solution is more integration.
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Migration and Trade
By Chiara Strozzi* The rapid growth in the immigrant population in many developed countries in recent decades has given origin to much debate on the socio-economic impacts of immigration, also promoting a significant increase in research activity on this issue. A great amount of research in particular has focused on the analysis of the links…