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XDC DIGITAL CINEMA
BIZ: Liège, June 15
XDC is a new member company of EVS Group - a Euronext public listed company and a specialist in slow-motion TV replay for sport. The Group has around 150 staff worldwide with major offices in Hong Kong and New York. XDC is launching the first...[more]
BID FOR HEIDELBERG CEMENT
[BIZ: Maastricht/Lixhe, June 11]
Spohn Cement has made a EUR 6.52bn bid for HeidelbergCement, Germany's biggest cement maker, which includes the plants of ENCI in Maastricht and at Lixhe in the Province of Liège. Spohn is offering EUR 60 for each Heidelberg...[more]
MEUSINVEST BUOYANT AT 20
[BIZ: Liège, June 10]
Meusinvest, the venture capital company celebrated its 20th anniversary recently with a party, held in the courtyard in the palace of the Prince Bishops in the heart of Liège. The company has played a role in the development of 250 companies,...[more]
ANNEXING THE MECC
[BIZ: Amsterdam, June 10]
The Amsterdam-based Annexum, private equity company, has announced the placement of the MECC property CV. The real estate holdings of the Maastricht Exhibition and Conference Center (MECC) have been taken over by the MECC property CV,...[more]
LUMINUS-SPE MERGER
[BIZ: Brussels/Hasselt, June 10]
The Belgian energy utilities SPE and Luminus are working towards a merger, according to the Belgian newspaper De Tijd. SPE and Luminus are the largest-but-one electric power producers and distributors respectively. The combination...[more]
EUROSTEEL 2005
[IND/EDU: Maastricht, June 10]
Hosted by ALMA and the University of Maastricht, the fourth European Conference on Steel and Composite Structures, looking at research, Eurocodes and practice, was held in Maastricht from June 8 through 10. The conference - crucial...[more]
DOCMORRIS AT FIVE
[BIZ: Heerlen, June 9]
Heerlen-based Docmorris, Europe's first online pharmacy, primarily active in Germany, is looking forward to an early liberalization of the prescription drugs market with the German election planned for the Autumn. Liberalization will lead...[more]
ELIA IPO JUNE 9
[BIZ: Brussels, June 9]
Elia, the Belgian electricity grid operator launched its IPO on June 9. It will list on Euronext on June 23. Electrabel and SPE own 70% of Elia; this will be reduced to 30%, so they will sell 40% of their combined 70% holding. The price...[more]
SEACON’S JUMBO DEAL
[BIZ/LOG: Venlo, June 9]
Royal Hausemann & Hötte, founded in Holland in 1853, is one of the oldest toy manufacturers in the world. It manufactures games and puzzles under the Jumbo label and it has now put its warehousing activities into the hands of Seacon...[more]
SPACEBEL IN PARIS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Liège, June 9]
The Liégeoise SME Spacebel - one of the major players in the field of Space IT - is once again be exhibiting at the Paris Air Show, which is running from June 13 through to 19, 2005.
In addition to its traditional activities...[more]
THE CLAY EXPERIENCE
[BIZ: Aachen, June 8]
The Aachen Kathy Beys Foundation is holding an event based on clay at the Katschhof in Aachen from June 17 through June 19, Friday from 14:00 to 18:00 hrs and Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 to 18:00 hrs. Clay is a construction material,...[more]
PARSYTEC INSPECTS TISSUES...
[IND/SCI-TECH: Aachen, June 8]
In March, Aachen-based Parsytec AG – the world’s leading supplier of surface and web inspection systems for strip products – received two further orders from the tissue market, after its proven initial successes in tissue inspection....[more]
CROSS-BORDER AUTOMOTIVE
[IND/GOV: Maastricht, June 8]
The top-technology region with Limburg in the Aachen-Eindhoven-Louvain triangle is important for the automotive sector, which wants to support cross-border activity. The province of Limburg has given its support to a three year...[more]
NEW PEARL FOR LOMMEL
[BIZ/LEI: Lommel, June 7]
The Dutch Oostappen Group has announced that it is going to take over Aqua Paradiso Leisure Park, with its beach in Lommel-Kolonie, which has 40 ha and 750 stay spaces. These will be expanded to 1000 apartments, rental chalets and caravans....[more]
STRIP MINERS IN COURT
[BIZ/GOV: Erkelenz/Münster, June 7]
The representatives of Garzweiler II, an open cast, lignite strip mine, have to appear in court in Münster to answer a complaint by the Association for Environmental Protection (BUND) against its business plan. The Bund is...[more]
MEDTRONIC: FDA CLEARANCE
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Minneapolis, June 7]
Medtronic, Inc., with major bases in Maastricht en Heerlen, has announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance and market availability for the Reliant Stent Graft Balloon Catheter, a multipurpose catheter used...[more]
A&M HOLDS INDUSTRY’S 2ND SPOT
[BIZ: Aachen, June 7]
In the boom year 2004, the life insurer AachenMünchener Lebensversicherung maintained its position as number 2 in the industry. "This position illustrates our corporate strength. In a record year for the insurance industry, we made market-share...[more]
PARSYTEC Q1 2005 RESULTS
[BIZ: Aachen, June 7 (May 18)]
Parsytec AG - the world's leading producer of surface inspection systems for strip products – announced its results for Q1, 2005 as of March 31, 2005. The accounting was pursuant to International Financial Reporting Standards...[more]
Q-PARK BIDS FOR NCP
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 7]
The Maastricht-based parking company Q-Park has put in a bid for National Car Parks (NCP), the UK's biggest operator and in the parking business for over 60 years, employing 4,000 staff and operating 600 car parks. NCP has changed hands...[more]
RUBBER RESOURCES
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 6]
With its new ecological corporate image, symbolized by the white tiger, Rubber Resources BV held an international meeting in Maastricht, June 5 through 6, hosting agents from around the world, including Austria, Hong Kong, Brazil, Sweden,...[more]
SMART PROSPECTS
[BIZ: Düsseldorf, June 6]
The German business paper Handelsblatt reports on a presentation by the new Daimler-Chrysler’s Smart boss Ulrich Walker. It is said that he is optimistic, but there are questions. These related to the long-term future of the Smart forfour...[more]
GTI CHOSES ICTOPUS FOR SAP
[BIZ: Eindhoven, June 6]
GTI and Ictopus have signed an agreement for the outsourcing of GTI’s SAP management to Ictopus. The agreement relates to the functional and technical management of the SAP application, which GTI is using currently. GTI is a leading...[more]
20 SUPERCONFEX STORES TO C&A
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 6]
Maastricht-based, Macintosh subsidiary Superconfex, a clothing chain, is selling 20 of its 42 stores to C&A Belgium. All 131 workers on permanent contract will keep their jobs, pursuant to the collective labor agreement. The transfer...[more]
PARKSTAD BUSINESS CONTACT
[BIZ: Kerkrade, June 10]
On June 22 and June 23, from 12:00 to 21:00 hrs, there will be a business contact event at the Parkstad Limburg Stadium with a range of activities, which can be seen at the web site...[more]
AIXTRON EUROPE ESTABLISHED
[BIZ: Aachen, June 5]
All AIXTRON, Thomas Swan, Epigress and Genus products have been focused in one organization to further strengthen customer support and CVD [Chemical Vapor Deposition] market leadership in Europe. AIXTRON AG, a leading provider of equipment...[more]
FEV’S CHINA POWERTRAIN
[IND: Dalian, China, June 5]
On May 11, 2005, FEV China Co., Ltd., opened its new high-tech powertrain development center in Dalian, a harbor city in Liaoning Province about 600 km east of Peking. Professor Stefan Pischinger, CEO of FEV, said: "With this investment,...[more]
SOPTIM-PFC/ENERGY PORTFOLIOS
[BIZ/INFRA: Aachen, June 5]
Energy portfolio management is going to be made easier by energy portal Energate’s use of Soptim AG Aachen’s Hourly Price Forward Curve. The Hourly Price Forward Curve (Hourly PFC) is a revised and optimized mathematical model for...[more]
TAX EXEMPTION ON INVESTMENT
[BIZ/GOV: Namur, June 3]
The Walloon ‘Economic Relaunch Decree’ includes a provision to abolish all real estate deductions for ´equipment and tooling´ on additional investment after January 1, 2005. This provision covers 6,000 locations.The taxes to which ...[more]
LOTS OF MILK
[BIZ: Eupen, June 3]
The Milch Union Hocheifel, a major German dairy operation, is expanding its business and is setting up a new warehouse and a building for the manufacturing and sale of agricultural products. The new building in Pronsveld in Germany will...[more]
Z-O-O FAST DECIDERS
[BIZ/EDU: Maastricht, June 4]
Zuid Organisatie Ontwikkeling (Z-O-O), a Maastricht management training and coaching operation, is offering a series of courses and information sessions on taking decisions fast: learning to use and have confidence in your intuitions...[more]
500 JOBS AT SABIC
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 3]
The Minister of Economic Affairs, Mr Laurens Jan Brinkhorst was in Maastricht for a debate with representatives of SABIC, Limburg business and Limburg’s government on June 8 at the Maastricht School of Management (MSM). During the meeting,...[more]
INTER-NED NEWS
[BIZ/GOV: Düsseldorf, June 3]
Inter-Ned, which is concerned with relations between the Netherlands and North-Rhine Westphalia, has produced another newsletter. Topics covered include the summer events program, which has a focus on cross-border business; social ...[more]
WATERWORKS
[BIZ: Verviers, June 3]
The Liège-Verviers Chamber of Commerce has been concentrating on the water cluster, to encourage change and synergy among the various actors: business research centers, educational organizations and public organizations. They assist business...[more]
BUSINESS JUDGES POLITICS
[BIZ: Liège, June 3]
In April, the Liège and Verviers chambers of commerce carried out an inquiry, which was organized by the Walloon Business Association (UWE), in order to measure the extent to which business assessed politicians and public institutions in...[more]
BIKES AND BUSINESS
[BIZ: Verviers, June 3]
On the assumption that bikes mean business too, the Chamber of Commerce in Verviers has organized a special networking day for motorcyclists on June 19. Thirty participants are expected to take part, leaving from Aubel on a 200-kilometer...[more]
EVS HD AT UEFA CUP
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Liège, June 2]
High-Definition production in Europe took another significant step forward in May with both the UEFA Cup Final in Lisbon and the Champions League Final in Istanbul. The Finals were produced entirely in High-Definition and EVS HD...[more]
NRW CABLE TAKEOVER
[BIZ/INFRA: Kerpen/Bonn, June 2]
The server in the Ish Technical Center in Kerpen has been checked and there is no objection by the Monopolies Commission [Bundeskartellamt] in Bonn to the takeover of Germany’s second largest cable business, Ish Cologne, by their...[more]
CHAUDFONTAINE
[BIZ: Chaudfontaine, June 2]
On June 17, the new Hotel Chaudfontaine on the site of the old Palace Hotel will be opened. The original building dates from 1939 and has been entirely refurbished, both inside and out, over a period of six months. Liège’s new paper,...[more]
LAS VEGAS-MAASTRICHT (2)
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 2]
Another episode in the story of the Las Vegas-based Caesars Palace coming to Maastricht notes that, if the feasibility study comes up with the right results, the project will represent an investment of EUR 600m. It will be on the site...[more]
PASSPORT:(D) INFINEON + PHILIPS
[BIZ: Munich, June 2]
Infineon and Philips will be providing chips for the new German passport. There are currently 24 million German passports in circulation and 2 million are renewed or applied for each year. The new passports will have chips containing biometric...[more]
NETCOLOGNE IN AACHEN & DÜREN
[BIZ/INFRA: Cologne, June 2]
Cologne-based, telco NetCologne is on a growth curve and in H2, 2005, will expand to Aachen and Düren. In a report in the Aachener Zeitung, it is noted that revenues grew in 2004 from EUR 26m to EUR 171m and in Q1 2005, a reduction...[more]
SPA WIND TUNNEL
[BIZ/LEI: Spa, June 2]
A private investor is to build a wind tunnel on the Spa airfield. This will provide gravity-free space. The EUR 5m investment is an attraction for all and will also offer parachute training options....[more]
RWE & E.ON: NUCLEAR OPTION
[BIZ/INFRA: Frankfurt, June 2]
The RWE power utility and E.on, before it, have spoken out for an extension on nuclear power in Germany. At a Deutsche Bank investors’ conference in Frankfurt, RWE CFO Klaus Sturany said that nuclear power would give Germany a...[more]
HOTEL AWARD FOR THE BEAUMONT
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 2]
Hotel Beaumont on the Wyckerbrugstraat in Maastricht has won the Dutch Hotel Award just before its official reopening on June 24. The Beaumont now has one of the most sought-after awards in the Dutch hotel business, beating a number...[more]
AIXTRON & GENESIS PHOTONICS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Aachen/Tainan, June 1]
Aixtron AG, a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, has announced the delivery of an additional Thomas Swan MOCVD system for the mass production of gallium nitride (GaN)-based ultra high...[more]
EU DIGITAL 5-YEAR PLAN
[BIZ/GOV: Brussels, June 1]
The European Commission has adopted the “ European Information Society 2010 initiative” (i2010) to foster growth and jobs in the information society and media industries. i2010 is a comprehensive strategy for modernizing and deploying ...[more]
CELESIO IN BELGIUM
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Brussels, June 1]
Celesio, the European pharmacy and pharmacy retail group wants to take over pharmacies in Belgium, the Netherlands and Ireland or start them up themselves. In addition, the group is targeting takeovers in the retail segment and...[more]
SONACA NEEDS NEW CAPITAL
[BIZ: Gosselies, June 1]
The aerospace technology company Sonaca from Gosselies has liquidity problems. The company has requested a capital investment injection of EUR 50m. The Namur government is the principal shareholder in Sonaca. This money will allow the...[more]
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SCHENKER DAILY TO MILAN
[LOG: Tilburg, June 14]
Schenker is expanding its existing scheduled routes from the Netherlands in order to use the facilities of the TAPA-A certified Schenker terminal in Milan and send goods on a 48 hour delivery basis from the Milan region. The company is...[more]
NEW KANNE BRIDGE
[INFRA, Kanne, June 11]
The new EUR 12m bridge at Kanne over the Albert Canal, 86 meters wide and 9.1 meters high, should be completed by the beginning of the building trades vacation period. On August 15, the old bridge will be demolished and a roundabout,...[more]
AIRCRAFT NOISE
[LOG: Maastricht/Liège, June 9]
In Maastricht, Councilor Gerard van Rens, quoted by John Hoofs in ‘Dagblad de Limburger’, has advocated a more charitable approach to Liège Airport, which would appear to be developing into Meuse-Rhine’s economic dynamo.In...[more]
TOLL INCREASES ROAD PRICE
[LOG/BIZ: The Hague, June 7]
The toll on the German highways for trucks has made trips considerably more expensive. Truck trip costs on the German highway went up by 6% in Q1, 2005. The rise in costs for other international destinations went up half a percentage...[more]
THALYS TICKETS FOR LOCAL TRAVEL
[LOG: Eupen, June 6]
Tickets for the Thalys high-speed train between Aachen, Liège, Brussels and Paris are also valid for travel by bus in the Belgian, German and Dutch border areas and can also be used to Eupen, Kelmis, Heerlen and Kerkrade. The combination...[more]
TPG EUR 94M FOR LIEGE AIRPORT
[LOG: Liège, June 4]
TPG, the Dutch post service is investing EUR 94m in Liège Airport. In the next six years, this will lead to the creation of 245 jobs. TNT Express, a division of the post office (TPG), which has actually changed its name to TNT, uses the...[more]
LIMBURG’S INLAND PORTS
[LOG: Venlo, June 3]
Limburg’s (NL) inland ports provide 5,300 jobs and contributed directly and indirectly EUR 0.6bn to the economy, according to a study on the economic importance of inland ports in Limburg, which the Dutch Association of inland Ports has...[more]
ECOLO'S MONTZEN WORRIES
[LOG: Eupen, June 3]
In the context of the reopening of the Iron Rhine, the Ecolo party has expressed concern about danger to the rail freight line via Montzen. The Iron Rhine will also link the Port of Antwerp to Germany and the Ruhr and in recent weeks, the...[more]
TNT: AIRNET CLINICAL SAMPLES
[LOG/LIFE-SCI: Amsterdam, June 2 (May 10)]
TNT Express, the world's leading B2B express delivery company, today announced a strategic partnership with the US Company AirNet Systems. AirNet will act as TNT's exclusive partner for transports of clinical samples...[more]
LINNICH’S LOWER RHINE GAS
[INFRA: Linnich, June 1]
The ‘Niederrheinischen Gas- und Wasserwerke’ (The Lower Rhine Gas and Waterworks) is making its presence felt at the edge of its normal area of operations in Linnich by offering incentives to new customers. These include discounts on...[more]
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CROSS-BORDER KNOWLEDGE
[EDU: Eupen, June 8]
Cross-border knowledge transfer in the Belgian-German triangle is at the heart of the meeting in Eupen. The partners are the universities of Liège, Aachen, Maastricht and Hasselt. The universities are working in the Alma context, processing...[more]
TEA FOR SENIORS
[GOV: Maastricht, June 8]
The European institute for Digital Communication (EC/DC) will receive a subsidy of EUR 65,000 from the Province of Limburg for the development of three experimental frameworks in the area of IT products for the senior citizen economy....[more]
AACHEN NEWSLETTER
[GOV: Aachen, June 7]
There is a new issue of the Aachen Region’s newsletter for Meuse-Rhine, number 7 for June. It covers information to the public: public transport without borders; Interreg news; reporting on the current projects and activities such as Euban...[more]
EUROREGIONALE LABEL
[GOV: Alsdorf, June 7]
Harald Richter has produced a special version of the DVD for the ‘Energy Landscape AnnA’ project, the contribution of Alsdorf for Euregionale 2008, but the concept requires a label to carry on and the committee responsible has now granted...[more]
BUSINESS GRADUATES FIND JOBS
[EDU: Liège, June 7]
Graduates of the Liège HEC Business School do well on the job market, according to the school’s statistics. 70% of the graduates have a job within the next nine months and 16% carry on for a higher degree. The greater number of HEC graduates...[more]
CAIRN ONLINE IN FRENCH
[EDU: Liège, June 7]
CAIRN, the 70th spin-off from the University of Liège, associated with De Boeck and three other French-language publishers, is launching a portal for social science and humanities publishing online. In this context, LENTIC (a lab for the...[more]
LIMBURG POLICE ASTRID NETWORK
[GOV: Maastricht, June 6]
16 Of a total of 18 Limburg (B) police districts have been connected to the Astrid communications network that is designed to streamline the public safety services. The remaining Limburg zones will join the system by the end of the...[more]
EUREGIONALE 2008
[GOV: Aachen/Herzogenrath, June 5]
EuRegionale 2008 has decided to approve the Herzogenrath Indeland project ‘Landscape in transition’, with four other Euroregional projects that get the Euroregional label. So far, it is Bauhaus Europe, the Heidenaturpark, Energielandschaft...[more]
AGIT COOPERATES WITH MERIT
[EDU: Aachen, June 5]
‘Strategic innovation’ is a major EUR 5.8m cross-border, 650-Company project to help the business community to innovate their work processes, products and services. It is financed by the EU’s Interreg III program and allows businesses to...[more]
THE CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE
[EDU: Liège, June 3]
At the start of the 2005-2006 academic year, a new Confucius Institute will open at the University of Liège. A declaration of intent to this end was signed by the Minister of Higher Education and International Relations in the French-speaking...[more]
THE GREAT HALL AT LIEGE U
[EDU: Liège, June 2]
The University of Liège’s Great Hall (Salle académique) has been restored and refurbished at a cost of EUR 2.76m, including EUR 1.29 million in subsidies - with 95% coming from the Walloon Region. The new hemicycle links the past with today,...[more]
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
[EDU: Aachen, June 2]
Plans are afoot to develop an international school at the Aachen Rhein-Maas Gymnasium. The background is the idea of developing a trilingual branch that allows pupils to graduate from high school (Gymnasium in German, French or Dutch)....[more]
NEW COURT HOUSE FOR LIEGE
[GOV: Liège, June 2]
The extensions of the Palace of Justice (the law courts) in Liège are going to start in September - 40 years late - and will last for five years at an estimated cost of EUR 67m....[more]
WALLOONS COVER F1 DEFICIT
[GOV/BIZ: Francorchamps, June 2]
The Walloon region has ensured the running of this year’s Formula 1 competition at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. The government in Namur will make good the deficit of EUR 4m in unpaid taxes, built up on the circuit last year...[more]
US AWARD FOR GOVERNOR
[GOV: Maastricht, June 2]
The Governor of Limburg, the Baron van Voorst tot Voorst, received the US Army Commander’s Award for Public Service from US Ambassador Clifford M. Sobel at the end of last month. This took place in the presence of General James L. Jones,...[more]
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DISEASE MODELING
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, June 14]
LifeTecAachen-Jülich e.V. is holding a meeting of its BioClub, July 5 at 18:00hrs in the Sammelbau Biologie at the RWTH Aachen, Seminar room 42A 032, Worringer Weg 1, in Aachen. Dr Joerg Lippert of Bayer Technology Services, Leverkusen...[more]
JULICH GETS HOSPITAL WARD
[LIFE-SCI: Jülich/Düsseldorf, June 9]
Jülich is ‘beefing up’ its brain research. Its medical researchers and their colleagues from the Heinrich Heine University from Düsseldorf have been cooperating very closely since 1975. As a result of this, they have drawn...[more]
AI CLASSIFIES BREAST CANCER
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, June 8]
Maastricht PhD student Nick van Rodijnen is developing an (Artificial Intelligence) AI-based computer model to refine the histopathological classification of breast cancer. Unlike many other computer scientists, this engineer not...[more]
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ABSOLUTE ZERO
[SCI-TECH: Liège, June 15]
The Liège Space Centre, a leading satellite producer (in a growing market), is going put its EUR 30m Planck satellite in bath this Summer and gradually reduce the temperature to close to absolute zero. This is a world’s first. The...[more]
RWTH & CHINA STEEL
[SCI-TECH: Aachen, June 8]
Relations with China are developing apace. The Chinese steel producer Baosteel has signed a cooperative agreement with the RWTH University of Aachen, relating to the further development of high quality steel for the automotive industry....[more]
TRANSCEND
[SCI-TECH/GOV: Maastricht, June 2]
Transcend is an Interreg project which promotes and assists Meuse-Rhine business in the application of scientific and technological innovation in other sectors. It succeeds programs for technology transfer in Europe, for life...[more]
FROM ANTIMATTER TO FUSION
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, June 1]
The Jülich Research Center’s contribution to this year's science summer during the Einstein Year in Berlin include exciting experiments, from cutting-edge research on the MS Einstein; a "crib” sheet outlines Einstein's ideas for schoolchildren...[more]
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MUSIC ON THE BARGE
[LEI: Liège, June 12]
There are two upcoming shows on L’Excale barge in Liège, (see the website below). Saturday June 18 at 21:00 hrs has Jama and Co are putting on old time country music - Blues, Folk songs & Protest songs, Bluegrass, Newgrass & Retrograss....[more]
ARCHITECTURE DAY
[LEI: Heerlen, June 10]
The Vitruvianum, center for architecture in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, together with Maastricht architectural center TOPOS and BNA South Limburg are organizing an architecture day on Saturday July 2. The day will have ‘A Journey through...[more]
LIVING STATUES
[LEI: Thorn, June 9]
The Thorn Metronoom Foundation with the Limburg (NL) Center for Amateur Arts, the Province of Limburg and the Media Groep Limburg are organizing the Wijngaard Festival’s gallery of living sculptures with the Open Limburg Championship on...[more]
MANJEFIEK ART
[LEI: Maastricht, June 8]
From June 15 through September 30, there will be an exhibition at the Manjefiek restaurant on the Rijksweg 80 in Maastricht, presenting the work of three graduates of the Maastricht Academy of the Fine Arts. The works will be exhibited...[more]
VODAFONE BEACH, MAASTRICHT
[LEI: Maastricht, June 8]
Following the example set by Paris, Vodafone is offering the city of Maastricht a beach along the River Meuse for the summer months. This makes Maastricht the second city in the Netherlands to have its own beach on the Meuse within...[more]
HASSELT ON THE BOX
[LEI: Hasselt, June 8]
In the course of 2006, there will be recording of a new VRT TV series, ‘the Emperor of taste’ which takes place in and around Hasselt. This is the story of a Hasselt family of gin (jenever) distillers and runs from 1939 to the 1980s. It...[more]
ART IN VAALS
[LEI: Vaals, June 6]
A fourth edition of a Euroregional event will be held in Vaals called ‘Vaals uit de kunst’, from July 10 through 24, with an arts focus. This will include a gastronomic art walk, seven kilometers long through three countries, with food vouchers...[more]
BIKE ROUTES IN SOUTH LIMBURG
[LEI: Valkenburg, June 6]
There is a new cycle route numbered around Eijsden and the border area and this can be used for the unique map, which allows you to cycle where you want and for as long as you want within the South Limburg hill country and the Belgian...[more]
TOP SHOPS’ HATS & HERRINGS
[LEI/BIZ: Maastricht, June 3]
Top shops/PAG and ABN Amro Private Banking Limburg welcomed the start of Summer with a herring party. In one of those little squares, which only Maastricht can boast of, just off the Lenculenstraat, there was lots of herring to...[more]
15TH WMC KERKRADE 2005
[LEI: Kerkrade, June 3]
The World Music Contest Kerkrade Foundation is organizing a 3rd International Round Table Conference (IRTC) during the upcoming festival in July, under the heading: ‘Who is going to take up the Gauntlet’, on Tuesday 19 and Wednesday...[more]
WATER AND SAND
[LEI: Roermond, June 3]
In De Weerd in Roermond, there will be a major thanksgiving festival in the context of 60 years of Liberation. The festival will be called ‘Water and Sand’ and it is organized by Santa Fe, an association concerned with the restoring and...[more]
THE FESTIVAL OF FLANDERS
[LEI: Tongres, June 3]
The festival of Flanders, with a focus on Tongres and the Hesbaye, will run from June 19 through July 14 and has a Limburg focus. The young Belgian violinist Yossif Ivanov, who was second in the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition,...[more]
CULTURA NOVA
[LEI: Heerlen, June 3]
Cultura Nova, the Summer Festival of the Arts in Heerlen is celebrating its jubilee year and it runs from August 27 through September 4. This is its 15th anniversary. This year also sees the French Plasticiens Volants with the gigantic...[more]
WHAT’S ON?
[LEI: Maastricht, June 2]
There is a list of events of what’s on in the five major cities of Meuse-Rhine (Maastricht, Aachen, Hasselt, Heerlen and Liège) in June, July, August and the first half of September on the web site linked below...[more]
CULINARY PRIZE FOR MALMEDY
[LEI: Malmedy, June 2]
The young cook Christopher Demany from Malmedy has won a prize from the Liège Gastronomic Fraternity. The jury awarded the prize to him for his preparation of trout from Robertville with Malmedy beer and as a main course, a garlic chicken...[more]
SUMMER OPERA AT ALDEN BIESEN
[LEI: Alden Biesen, June 2]
Under the all-seeing eye of Lies Kerkhofs, Director of the Commandery - i.e.: HQ of a Knightly order - at Alden Biesen, the Summer Opera Season started with a preview of Verdi’s ‘La Traviata’ on June 1. The Commandery originally belonged...[more]
SMUGGLERS’ MARKET
[LEI: Stokkem, June 2]
The province of Belgian Limburg is organizing a tourist smugglers’ market from July 2005 in the town of Stokkem, in which traders from both sides of the Meuse will participate. Administrative requirements are without charge and of course,...[more]
MEUSE-RHINE TOURIST OFFICE
[LEI/GOV: Vaals, June 2]
This year, the three tourist offices in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion (South Limburg, Pays d’ Herve and East Belgium) are again opening a joint tourist post at the tri-country triangle in Vaals. It will be open seven days a week, from June...[more]
FIRST BURGUNDIAN STREET MARKET
[LEI: Gulpen, June 2]
On Sunday June 19, from 10:00 to 13:00 hrs, the first Burgundian Street Market will be held at the center of Gulpen. The municipality has taken the initiative for this weekly Sunday market and invited various stallholders with local products...[more]
BURG WILHELMSTEIN OPEN AIR
[LEI: Burg Wilhelmstein, June 2]
From June 3, there is to be a range of musical activities at Burg Wilhelmstein. It’s part of a program of live music, pop, jazz, world music, classics and films. The popular Algerian singer Khaled will be coming back on Monday...[more]
BUSH TRAIL IN MEUSE-RHINE
[LEI: Valkenburg, June 2]
To mark the visit of President Bush to South Limburg on May 7 and 8, a special Bush route has been set up by the local tourist authority to enable people to follow his trail. It includes stays in Margraten. Also there is the option...[more]
ENJOYING THE ARDENNES
[LEI: Bütgenbach, June 1]
In the middle of the Ardennes, the town of Bütgenbach in Belgium’s German-speaking region is small, yet makes its presence felt. The lake, the primary asset for which the picturesque town is famous has been topped again, after being...[more]
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