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GÜL & HIRSI ALI IN MAASTRICHT
[EDIT: Maastricht, August 30]
Curiously, Mr Abdullah Gül, the recently elected Turkish President, reputed to have Islamist sympathies, shared a podium in Maastricht with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the brave and beautiful, Somali-born, anti-Islamist and former Dutch Liberal...[more]
MEUSE-RHINE SEEN FROM TOPEKA KANSAS
[EDIT: Topeka, Kansas, August 26]
Professor Kathy Menzie of Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas recently spent some time in Maastricht; a second stop in a European tour, after a period with the Herald Tribune in Paris and before moving on to Selwyn...[more]
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ENERGY HILLS E.V.
[BIZ/GOV; Aachen, August 30]
Fifty representatives from the worlds of business, science and government will be meeting on Friday August the 31st to set up a new business network which will go by the name of ‘Energy Hills’. This initiative has been taken jointly...[more]
MACINTOSH H1 NET PROFIT UP 54%
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 30]
The Macintosh Retail Group has just released its H1 figures for 2007. The full report is available at the link below.
• Turnover rises 4.1% to EUR 450 m.
• Increase in operating result by 4.8% to EUR 24.7 m.
• Net profit...[more]
MAASTRICHT NEW 5-STAR
[BIZ, Maastricht, August 29]
The Amråth Hotel Group is making plans to build a new 5-star hotel at the market in Maastricht. They have set their sights on the buildings on the Batterijstraat and the Market, owned by the SNS bank. The buildings are quoted at...[more]
MECOM BIDS FOR WEGENER
[BIZ: Amsterdam, August 29]
After a 2-week delay, Mecom, the British publisher is tendering its official bid for the Wegener Newspaper Group in The Netherlands. Mecom offered EUR 17.70 per share in cash for the 14,280 shares in May. The total offer is around...[more]
IPTE SALES UP 90 % IN Q2
[BIZ: Genk, August 29]
Limburg (B)-based IPTE NV, (Euronext Brussels: IPT) has posted sales of EUR 66.2m for the second quarter of 2007 compared with EUR 34.8 m in the same period last year making it Trend’’ ‘share of the day. The operating profit in the 2nd...[more]
LICHTENBUSCH
[BIZ: Lichtenbusch, August 28]
The Walloon regional government and the German-speaking community have decided soon to open an information office for business and tourism at the Lichtenbusch border crossing between Belgium and Germany. The Bureau will be run...[more]
LINDT & SPRÜNGLI GROW
[BIZ: Aachen, August 28]
The Lindt and Sprüngli chocolate factory has opened a new production facility in Aachen. They will focus on seasonal articles like ‘chocolate Easter Bunnies’, this represents an investment of EUR 40M. Lindt and Sprüngli now employ around...[more]
IKEA LIEGE TO EXPAND
[BIZ: Liège, August 27]
The Swedish furniture store Ikea is planning to extend its Liège branch in Hognoul. It currently has a retail area of more than 25,000m2. The new construction will increase the area by 50%. The company is waiting for a construction permit...[more]
PATENT CONSULTING DAY
[BIZ: Jülich, August 27]
How to safeguard and market ideas.
Creative ideas are often not used, because the inventors neglect to use patents. Without trademark rights, a patent or a utility-model-design, a commercial utilization of an invention is often very...[more]
STELLA AVIATION ACADEMY AT MAA
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 27]
The Stella Aviation Academy, the biggest pilot training school in The Netherlands, is going to train pilots and flying instructors at Maastricht-Aachen Airport. After Teuge Airport and Eelde Airport, this is the third location for...[more]
RETROUVAILLES
[BIZ/LEI: Liège, August 24]
Retrouvailles is the Back To School fair that comes around to Liège every year at this time. There are more than 300 stands at the Boverie Park. Spaces for art, for music and various types of performance, a business village, a gastronomic...[more]
INNOVATIVE PROJECTS
[BIZ: Venlo, August 24]
Thirty clusters of Brabant and Limburg companies have been promised a total of EUR 1,450,000 for project development and feasibility research. This completes the first phase of a program, concerned with encouraging new, innovative types...[more]
AACHEN IN FILMS
[BIZ/LEI: Aachen, August 24]
Aachen is offering a prize for a film script as it wants to attract the interest of the industry to Aachen. It has been working with North-Rhine Westphalia on this project for some time because it has excellent locations offering...[more]
AVANTIS OPPORTUNITIES
[BIZ: Aachen/Heerlen, August 24]
The European science and business park Avantis has been recognized as a special opportunity area by the Dutch government. After the three leading technical universities in The Netherlands, in Eindhoven, Enschede and Delft, Avantis...[more]
BATTICE-HERVE FAIR
[BIZ/LEI: Battice-Herve, August 24]
On September 1 and 2 will see the annual agricultural fair in Battice-Herve in Belgium. Established in 1989, the Battice-Herve Agricultural Fair is coming up now for the 18th time. There will be prizes for horses, ponies,...[more]
ELAT NEWSLETTER
[BIZ: Aachen, August 24]
The Eindhoven-Louvain Triangle ELAT is publishing a newsletter on issues such as partnership in European competition, a new cross-border economic area and preparing for European competition. Check information at:...[more]
STER TAKEN OVER
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 24]
The Dutch weeklies group NWG, has taken over Maastricht city newspaper the Ster. The shares in the Ster Maastricht BV publishers were taken over on August 27. The NWG will put the Maastricht and Heuvelland [hill-country] titles together...[more]
MAASTRICHT-EIJSDEN BIZ PARK
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 24]
The Maastricht-Eijsden Business Park has plenty of space 42 hectares - . It is characterized by its good connections and its friendly setting. In the plan for the park, a great deal of attention was paid to a green environment and...[more]
VEBEGO PARTICIPATES IN SERVICO
[BIZ: Voerendaal, August 23]
Vebego has had a stake in the German cleaning and housekeeping company Servico since July 1. It has 50% of the shares. This resulted from the activities of the Hago Building Service, the German branch of Vebego’s subsidiary Hago....[more]
CHIO AACHEN IN PEKING
[BIZ/LEI: Aachen, August 23]
Aachen’s equestrian specialist and sports manager, Michael Mronz, is in China to discuss an ambitious project which will be completed with the help of Aachen. In front of the gates of Peking in China, there is to be a state-of-the-art...[more]
TAMARA WEIDE AT MCB
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 23]
Since August 15, the Maastricht Convention Bureau has had a new sales manager for meetings and incentives in the shape of Tamara Weide. The team is now complete with its director, Marcel Knols, and colleague Sonja Speth, as the...[more]
MARKETING AACHEN AT 30
[BIZ: Aachen, August 22]
The Aachen Marketing Club has been active for 30 years and now has an official home at the Novotel Aachen City in the Peterstraße, which is the club’s hotel. When the club holds its 30th anniversary on September 7 it will be at the...[more]
ACTION IN THE POWER MARKET
[BIZ: Aachen, August 20]
Since the Consumers’ Group set-up a new campaign the telephones continue to ring. The new campaign, Power: Change Now and Save Now, which is initiated by the Consumers’ Organization of North-Rhine Westphalia and in which the Aachen branch...[more]
MAINTENANCE BOULEVARD MAA
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 20]
Maastricht-Aachen Airport was the host recently to members of the Dutch parliament who looked at the Maintenance Boulevard, which has a cluster of aircraft maintenance businesses. The MPs were Paul Tang (PvdA), Pauline Smeets (PvdA),...[more]
REAL ESTATE AND COFFEE
[BIZ: Liège, August 20]
Jean-Louis Berryer, the former top man of ISPC in Liège, has moved into real estate and is a shareholder and partner in the Invest and Corporate group. The group is developing 500m2 of office space in Longdoz, a series of ten single-family...[more]
VODAFONE WORLD OF DIFFERENCE
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 20]
Vodafone Netherlands Foundation has announced the winners of the World of Difference 2007. This very successful project gives talented people the opportunity to work for a year on their favorite subject and it is now going into...[more]
CENCO LIEGE WORLD LEADER
[BIZ: Liège, August 19]
Cenco International is a Liège company. It started in business in 1949 at the Fort of Liège and was concerned with the maintenance of aircraft engines including the Belgian F-16s. CENCO designs turn-key aero and industrial gas turbine...[more]
HUMAN/SOCIAL CAPITAL
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 18]
There is to be a Human and Social Capital Technology Summit, targeting digital power for individual and organizational success from Maastricht, October 17 through 19 at the MECC. The Human and Social Capital Technology Summit ...[more]
EI JOINS ORGANICE/CADAC
BIZ: Heerlen, August 18]
The Heerlen-based Cadac Group is the original developer of Organice. Cadac Group is a well recognized privately owned IT group founded in 1986, focused on the solution areas design automation, data management, document management and...[more]
Q-PARK AND RANDSTAD
[BIZ: Maastricht, August 17]
Q-Park, the European parking specialists, and the temporary employment specialist Randstad are working together on the Q-Park Academy. They ensure that the best people, like parking hosts (the hosts in parking garages) get a chance...[more]
WALLOON DESIGNERS
[BIZ: Liège, August 17]
Of the 6,000 Walloon designers there are 1,500 registered at Walloon Design. They want to link designers and business. The Walloon designers provide EUR 350m in added value: 10% of them work in product design (jewels, fashion, etc); 45%...[more]
NISSENS’ RADIATORS AT SPA
[BIZ: Welkenraedt, August 17]
The Danish automotive radiator systems by Nissens have played a major role with a range of vehicles at the Spa-Francorchamps 1000km race. Nissens are also widely used in the business of the Daytona 24 and the Le Mans 24. Currently...[more]
INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Jülich, August 16]
DASGIP AG, a leading manufacturer of parallel bioreactor systems, is expanding its range of gassing solutions for fermentation and cell cultivation by introducing the new modules MX4/1 and MF4. MX4/1 supplies reactors up to...[more]
MAJOR HOUSING PLAN FOR AACHEN
[BIZ/INFRA: Aachen, August 16]
There is to be a new housing estate called Richtericher Dell in the north of Aachen. This will represent an investment of EUR 15m. It has yet to be cleared by the traffic planning authorities. However, the city hopes to receive...[more]
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LIEGE PORT TRAFFIC INCREASE
[LOG: Liège, August 29]
In the first half of 2007 there has been a remarkable development of river traffic through the Port of Liège when compared with H1, 2006. The increase has approached 8% (7.83% to be precise), meaning that water traffic has reached 7,153,166...[more]
MAASTRICHT-BRUSSELS EXPRESS
[LOG: Maastricht, August 25]
The Maastricht-Brussels Express has been running for eight months every day on an hourly basis from Maastricht to Brussels on the Belgian high-speed line. The traveling time is one hour and 20 minutes to Brussels and two hours and...[more]
GERMAN RAIL JOINS THALYS
[LOG/BIZ: Aachen, August 24]
German Rail is going to take a 10% stake in the European rail company Thalys. This will improve the high-speed network in Europe. Further shareholders are French Railways for Belgian Railways. Last year seven million people traveled...[more]
GERMANS QUERY IRON RHINE
[LOG: Düsseldorf, August 17]
The reopening of the historic trajectory of the Iron Rhine between Antwerp and the Ruhr is now receiving some opposition from the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia. The Germans think that the historical route should be scrapped,...[more]
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WAR CEMETARY REQUIEM
[GOV: Margraten, August 29]
On Sunday September 9 Verdis Requiem will be performed by the Limburg Symphony Orchestra directed by Enrico Delambye at the American war cemetery in Margraten, South-Limburg. The concert starts at 15.00hrs and ends around 16.30hrs....[more]
EURO 57 M JUELICH COLLEGE
[EDU: Jülich, August 29]
Construction has started on the new Jülich campus for the Aachen college. The state of North-Rhine Westphalia is investing EUR 57M in the project which will comprise a full campus, including a student dining hall and library for around...[more]
EIJSDEN CALLS FOR HELP
[GOV: Eijsden, August 28]
The Eijsden section of the Dutch Labor Party (PvdA) has called upon the party bosses in The Hague and in Europe to help with a specific problem. This is the train station in Eijsden at which trains no longer seem to be stopping and...[more]
CROSS-BORDER BIZ PHD
[EDU: Maastricht, August 27]
An interesting piece of news is that a PhD is to be awarded in Maastricht, on September 5, to a graduate student, Uli Scholtz, whose dissertation topic is: “Cross-border customer loyalty in the retail trade”; or, in the original...[more]
MUSIC SCHOOL 75
[EDU: Aachen, August 24]
The city of Aachen’s Music School will be celebrating its 75th anniversary in the first week of September with concerts and lots of other things. The anniversary will be celebrated on September 1 at 11:00hrs in the Coronation Hall of...[more]
SLOW FOOD LIMBURG
[EDU/LEI: Maastricht, August 23]
Limburg Slow Food International has been around since December 2006 and its objective is to develop a platform for producers and consumers of food that is good to eat, pure and honest. Slow Food Limburg wants to promote the small-scale...[more]
LIMBURG IN ENVIRONMENT PRIZE
[GOV: Maastricht, August 23]
Since 1995 the Aachen Kathy Beys foundation has been awarding a Euroregional environmental prize for excellent projects which contribute to a sustainable improvement of the quality of life in the environment in Meuse-Rhine. Competitors...[more]
HEERLEN STUDENTS’ SITE
[EDU: Heerlen, August 19]
From August 19 Heerlen has been running a special web site for students, which gives an overview of activities in Heerlen and the facilities for students and young people. The site has been developed by the municipality of Heerlen,...[more]
EUREGIONALE 2008
[GOV: Aachen, August 16]
The EuRegionale and the town of Baesweiler are presenting a project on the on-going saga of the EuRegionale 2008. In this case the project focuses on the Green Metropolis, which was once a mining area and now there is an attractive park...[more]
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BRAIN FITNESS
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, August 22]
The BioMetrisch [biometrical] Center in Gulpen, Maastricht Instruments and AIM in Brunssum are organizing a mini-symposium called ‘Fitness For Brains’ on August 31, with the Limburg development company LIOF. The background to...[more]
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FUSION SUMMER SCHOOL
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, August 30]
The Jülich research centre has announced a joint German-Belgium and Dutch Summer School on Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics. This is the 8th Carolus Magnus (Charlemagne) Summer School. It runs from September 3rd through the 14th...[more]
CHARLEMAGNE IN OUTER SPACE
[SCI-TECH: Aachen, August 17]
When the space shuttle mission STS-122 lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on December 6, it will not only have the German astronaut Hans Schlegel on board but there will be a souvenir from Aachen in the form of a...[more]
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ROYAL WALLOON OPERA
[LEI: Liège, August 27]
Verde’s Nabucco will open the 2007/2008 season at the Royal Walloon Opera in Liège from September 21 through 30. As one of the biggest operatic successes, Nabucco, through the power and nobility of its melodies and choruses, continues...[more]
ART AND MUSIC AT AVANTIS
[LEI: Heerlen/Aachen, August 26]
Avantis, the European Science and Business Park, is playing a role in the context of the Cultura Nova summer festival. There will be stainless steel sculpture and contemporary music with the piano and clarinet of Arno and Paulien...[more]
CELTIC WHITE GOLD
[LEI: Maaseik, August 25]
Following Bibracte, Lausanne and Hanover, this exhibition has come directly from Vienna to the museum in Maaseik. The ‘white gold’ refers to salt, which was of vital importance both for health and trade. Salt arises in nature but is...[more]
OPERA ZUID
[LEI: Maastricht, August 24]
This season there will be three productions by Opera Zuid: Il Trittico, a triptych by Puccini that is seldom performed in one evening (showing from November 16, 2007); Cendrillon, the very popular Cinderella fairytale (showing from...[more]
STEFANIE KLINGEMANN
[LEI: Eupen, August 24]
From September 2 through October 14 there will be an exhibition called ‘Déjavu’ and a musical performance, ‘Eternal Love’, at the Ikob gallery in Eupen starring Stefanie Klingemann.
For more information:...[more]
AALBEKERHOEVE EXHIBITION
[LEI: Aalbeek, August 24]
In the ‘Aalbekerhoeve’ gallery and sculpture garden in Aalbeek, there will be an exhibition of bronzes from September 2 through October 14. It is open on Saturday and Sunday from 14:00 to 18:00hrs and by appointment. Contact 045 405...[more]
FILM AND MUSIC FROM RIEU
[LEI: Maastricht, August 24]
This time we’re talking about Jean-Philippe Rieu, brother of André, the star from Maastricht. He presented his new CD, called ‘EUROnde’, to the Minister for European Affairs in The Netherlands at the end of August, on the opening...[more]
LAURENT IMPEDUGLIA
[LEI: Liège, August 20]
In the fifth of a cycle of individual exhibitions called ‘Dissidence’, Les Brasseurs is presenting the opening of an exhibition of the work of Laurent Impeduglia (http://users.skynet.be/fa219452/impeduglia1/index.html) at 18:00 on Saturday...[more]
GREEK GODS IN SAND
[LEI: Lommel, August 20]
There is a special international festival of sand sculpture on the theme of the Greek Gods, which has been running in Lommel since July 1, supported by Farm Frites. On two Sundays the storytellers of Verbamuse, three ladies and a gentleman,...[more]
PARADE IN SPA
[LEI: Spa, August 20]
To mark its 20th anniversary the committee of the old quarter of Spa will organize a procession on the theme of ‘Life in Old Spa through the Centuries’. There will be 20 scenes presented representing important moments in the history of...[more]
JEAN PROUVE AT NAI
[LEI: Maastricht, August 19]
As a finale to the Jean Prouvé exhibition ‘The Poetics of the Technical Object’, which will close at the end of Sunday, September 2 at the NAI in Maastricht, two lectures have been organized for Saturday, September 1. These are:
1. Max...[more]
BRONZE, GLASS...IN ROERMOND
[LEI: Roermond, August 19]
Gallery Mariska Dirkx in Roermond is presenting an exhibition of 360 Degrees of Art, presenting the challenge in art. Check the website for details...[more]
MUSIC SCHOOL IN MEUSE-RHINE
[LEI/EDU: St Peter in Schwarzwald, August 18]
The International Musicosophia School is now active in the Meuse-Rhine area and it will be performing Joseph Haydn’s ‘The Creation’ on Friday, October 5 through Sunday, October 7. Check the website below for details.The ...[more]
INTERNATIONAL SKI CUP
[LEI: Landgraaf, August 18]
The West German Ski Organization held an indoor competition abroad at Snowworld for the first time in the century of its existence. Competitors born between 1997 and 2000 competed in two matches and in the giant slalom. The categories...[more]
DUTCH WALLOON FANS
[LEI: Liège, August 17]
There is an organization for Dutch Walloon fans called The GLOW, which stands for the association of those who prefer the Walloon country the way it is or [Genootschap van Liefhebbers van Onopgesmukt Wallonië] . They want to expose the...[more]
VISE HARBOR UPGRADED
[LEI/LOG: Visé, August 17]
The yacht harbor at Visé is now as good as new and 60 boats can moor there. Both electricity and water are available to visitors at the moorage. In the bar-restaurant they speak lots of languages and there are both lavatories and...[more]
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