What Canada can learn from Germany s mass, unplanned migration
Five years ago, more than a million refugees arrived in Germany. Today, many are working full-time. Here are the lessons Canada can learn from what went right and wrong in Germany.
February 2, 2021 Shmayess (right) left Syria for Görlitz, Germany, in 2015; his wife, Ammar, joined him a year later and the couple recently opened a restaurant (Photograph by Sadiya Ansari)
When Sami Shmayess was visiting his parents in his hometown of Latakia, Syria, in 2008, he met a German family who were on a year-long trip in their van. Long stretches of beach on the Mediterranean coast made the port city a popular holiday destination, and it was on a walk by the water where Shmayess’s parents spotted the Germans and invited them over for dinner and a hot shower. Shmayess quickly became friends with them. Eight years later, it was their turn to invite Shmayess to stay with them in Görlitz, a small city in the eastern part of Ger
Xinhua | Updated: 2020-12-11 09:13 Share CLOSE European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde speaks at a press conference at the ECB headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, on Dec 10, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]
FRANKFURT The European Central Bank (ECB) said on Thursday that it decided to expand the pandemic emergency purchase program (PEPP) by another 500 billion euros (605 billion U.S. dollars) and extend the duration of the program to at least the end of March 2022, as part of a fresh stimulus package to bolster the economy.
The newly announced measures were taken in view of the economic fallout from the resurgence of the pandemic, the ECB said in a statement after a monetary policy meeting.
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