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...unlike Portugal, Italy or Ireland it doesn't have a tradition of mass migration because it has been such a rich country for so long. What's striking about the new French exodus (and is causing a sometimes-agonized debate back home) is the description these new émigrés give of the France they are leaving behind: a country where it's difficult and sometimes miserable to be ambitious, where landing a stimulating job often depends on connections rather than talent, where bureaucracy is daunting and discrimination sometimes overt - a France, in other words, that...
...issue in the right-wing daily Le Figaro - and the official government line is that this exodus is a welcome sign that young French people are keen to broaden their horizons. At the same time, the government has been putting in place several programs designed to encourage émigrés to return, including offering cash incentives to talented scientists...
...District Attorney's Office accused him of pocketing $182 million from a group of American investors in an Azerbaijani privatization scheme that never took place. The Czechs want him in connection with separate allegations that he defrauded 250,000 small investors of up to $370 million. A Czech émigré with a degree in economics from Harvard University, Kozeny made a fortune in the 1990s, handling high-risk investments in mass privatization schemes in the emerging markets of the former eastern bloc. He has always maintained his innocence. "I am a straight shooter," he told the Czech daily Mlada...
...locations around Paris playing everything from Swiss documentaries to The Hulk, MK2 has fans among cinephiles and general moviegoers alike. Founder Marin Karmitz, 64, started his first cinema in 1974, near the Bastille. "I felt the time had come to approach cinema differently," says the Romanian émigré. "Opening that first theater was a reaction to the existing run-down art-house scene, a way to bring films in their original languages to Paris neighborhoods." Today, an average of 82,000 Parisians visit an MK2 outlet each week. MK2 also produces and distributes films, championing filmmakers like German-born...
...working environment meant slowing down from the "mad pace" he was used to at his old, understaffed hospital. "I was respectfully told to take it easy," he remembers. "And that was O.K." Shedding old habits is, in fact, one of the main challenges the new German émigrés face. "People need to learn to forget about the way things were done at home," argues Birgit Krone, the head of the Baltic Training Center, which organizes language courses and job-coaching for unemployed Germans who want to apply for jobs in Scandinavia or the Netherlands. "They should be open...