EU rules Malta’s golden passport scheme illegal
Plus: Moved abroad, came home, felt weird
GLOBAL MOBILITY
🇲🇹 EU rules Malta’s golden passport scheme illegal
A blow to citizenship-for-sale: Europe’s top court says Malta can’t hand out passports without requiring “real" ties to the country.
Dmytro Hubenko for DW News
NOMAD LIFESTYLE
🧳 Moved abroad, came home, felt weird
Americans who return after living overseas say the real culture shock isn’t abroad—it’s re-entering the U.S.
Lauren McDonnell for HuffPost
NOMAD HUBS
🇭🇷 Nomads can now stay in Croatia for three years
A major boost for long-term remote work: Croatia now allows digital nomads to stay three times longer under its extended residence permit.
Donatella Paukovic for Lider
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TECHNOLOGY
📱 The group chats that changed America
Private messages, public consequences. How encrypted chats became a new frontier for activism, politics, and power.
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FUTURE OF WORK
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A closer look at how burnout, bureaucracy, and broken systems—not incompetence—are making work feel increasingly impossible.
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