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TOP STORIES AND ONELINERS
[EDIT: Eijsden, September 15]
Interest in India is clearly growing in Meuse-Rhine. There has been ongoing evidence for this in our stories in recent years, with investments in Belgium and a flurry of Indian intellectuals visiting our universities. Interesting...[more]
LEST WE FORGET
[EDIT: Margraten, September 14]
On Sunday, September 14, the third annual Margraten Memorial Requiem concert was held at the American war Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. Brahms' German Requiem, his greatest choral work and possibly the best-known work...[more]
STAMMTISCH
[EDIT: Vaals, September 8]
Having worked in Germany many years ago, I though I knew what a ‘Stammtisch’ was. It was a table in the bar, where you could see everything that was going on and observe all newcomers; and, indeed, pass comment on all and sundry....[more]
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LIEGE DEMAIN AT 10
[BIZ: Liège, September 15]
Liège Demain, the business association, is holding its 10th anniversary session, featuring Fanny Rossignol and Michel Vincent, as hosts, from Liège Matin – Vivacité (Radio) on Monday, October 6, 17.30 through 20.00hrs at the MAMAC...[more]
TAMIL TEXTILES CHOOSE LIEGE
[BIZ: Liège, September 15]
A Warehousing/ Marketing /Distribution Center and an Exhibition Center is to be set up in Liège by Powerloom Development, the Export Promotion Council (PDEXCIL) and Cauvery Hi-Tech Weaving Park (CHWP)/Cauvery Clothing Company Limited...[more]
GREENPORT ON L1
[BIZ: Venlo, September 13]
‘Koplopers’ is a title of a new weekly TV show on the Limburg TV program L1 TV. It’s on every Thursday starting from September 18. It looks at progressive business people, innovative projects and interesting stories related to Greenport,...[more]
FAVINI ANSWERS
[BIZ: Milan/Meerssen, September 13]
The arrival of a press release from Favini in Italy recently noted that the creditors of Favini Spa (in administration) had voted 72.2% in favor of the ‘Concordato Preventivo’, the Italian agreement with the creditors, opening...[more]
STAR-APIC IN PARIS
[BIZ: Liège, September 12]
On September 23 at the Élysées Biarritz in Paris there will be a special event for STAR-APIC’s French-speaking clients, presenting a wide range of activities. Send an e-mail for further information to: evenement2008@star-apic.com...[more]
LIMBURG EXPORT AWARD
[BIZ: Maastricht, September 11]
Hauzer Techno Coating from Venlo, Nunhems Netherlands, the seed company from Haelen, and Van Houtum Paper from Swalmen are competing for the Limburg Export prize, which will be awarded on Wednesday, October 1. Last year the winner...[more]
LAMPERIS CAPITAL INCREASE
[BIZ: Liège, September 10]
The Liège energy supplier Lamperis has launched an increase in capital of EUR 10m. The company wants to produce energy itself by installing windmill parks and investing in solar panels. Lamperis hopes by the end of the year to have...[more]
SNCB IN CAREX
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, September 10]
The Belgian rail company SNCB is going to take part in the Cargo Rail Express project (CAREX), which we have dealt with in this journal earlier. The idea is to set up a cargo network of high-speed freight trains linking Liège with...[more]
INTER-NED PROJECT ENDS
[BIZ/GOV: Düsseldorf, September 9]
An important program concerned with supporting cross-border business in the Netherlands and North-Rhine Westphalia, and funded by the EU Interreg IIIA program, has come to an end. The conclusion is that it provided a great...[more]
HUYGEN CHOOSES ORGANICE
[BIZ: Heerlen, September 9]
The Cadac Group, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and developer of Organice, a SharePoint based engineering document management solution, has signed a contract with Huygen Installatie Adviseurs B.V. (Installation Specialists) for...[more]
ARDENNES OUTLET CENTER
[BIZ: Verviers, September 9]
The Ardennes Outlet Center in Verviers wants to change its program. Those responsible for the center want to include traditional shops in the initial period and to grow in the longer term. This is a project that is not supported...[more]
AMB GENERALI: AA3
[BIZ: Aachen, September 9]
AMB Generali has again been assigned one of the highest ratings for German primary insurers under a financial strength rating. After Standard & Poor's (AA "excellent"), Fitch (AA "very strong") and A.M. Best (A+ "Superior"), Moody's...[more]
VAL SAINT LAMBERT...
[BIZ: Liège, September 9]
The commercial court in Liège has determined that the administrators of the bankruptcy of the Saint Lambert crystal works can carry on until September 30. The administrators asked to be able to carry on the business, which will allow...[more]
WIERTZ EXPANDS
[BIZ: Kerkrade, September 8]
The Limburg temporary employment organization, Wiertz Personeelsdiensten (HR Services), is going with new operations in the Eurode Business Center, in the Parkstad Limburg Stadium, in Nijmegen, Eindhoven, and Germany. They’ve had...[more]
FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX
[BIZ/LEI: Spa Francorchamps, September 8]
About 65,000 spectators attended the Formula One Grand Prix in Spa Francorchamps recently. The town’s streets were invaded by the English, the Germans and even the Japanese, all ready to cheer on their favorites — and...[more]
MAASTRICHT IN PARIS
[BIZ: Maastricht, September 8]
From September 8 through September 12 the Maastricht convention bureau is in Paris and the MCB, with its partners Château Neercanne, Château St. Gerlach and the Kruisheren Hotel (all part of the Camille Oostwegel Château Hotels...[more]
COPS CHOOSE CHIARADIA
[BIZ/LEI: Amstenrade, September 7]
The well-known Limburg advertising agency Oscar Chiaradia Design & Advertising emphasized its position in the Limburg markets with its campaign for Flikkendag Maastricht. This refers to a TV detective series which is now using...[more]
MECC AND TEFAF SIGN AGAIN
[BIZ: Maastricht, September 5]
In 2010 the current contract between the MECC conference and exhibition center in Maastricht and TEFAF, The European Fine Arts Fair, comes to an end. However, as both organizations wish to continue the cooperation to develop and...[more]
WOOD
[BIZ/GOV: Nettersheim, September 4]
The future oriented program for the Eifel is focusing on the wood competence center. Five hundred wood-processing companies in the Eifel employ 3,000 and produce EUR 310m annually. At the campus in Nettersheim there is a focus...[more]
PUBLIGAS CONTROL OF FLUXYS
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, September 4]
The municipal holding company Publigas and the French energy group GDF Suez have reached an agreement on the shareholding in the gas network company Fluxys. Suez had to give up part of its interest in Fluxys at the insistence...[more]
TESSENDERLO H1 2008
[BIZ: Tessenderlo, September 3]
Highlights.• The revenue of Tessenderlo Group for the first semester 2008 has increased from EUR 1,219.0m to EUR 1,423.8m, meaning an increase by 16.8 %.
• The consolidated net result, share of the group, rose by EUR 27.4m ...[more]
TESSENDERLO MGMT. CHANGE
[BIZ: Tessenderlo, September 3]
Tessenderlo Group announced today that as of January 1st, 2009, the following changes in management will become effective: Frank Coenen, currently Director business group Chemicals, is appointed Chief Operating Officer (COO) of...[more]
COAL POWER
[BIZ: Aachen, September 3]
Trianel, the Meuse-Rhine power company, has started construction of a city power station in Lünen. This will be a 750-megawatt coal-fired power station. Christa Thoban, Minister for the Economy, Business and Energy in North-Rhine Westphalia,...[more]
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AVANTIS–AACHEN LINK
[LOG: Parkstad, September 11]
A delegation from Parkstad, Richard de Boer and Jos Offermans, has gone to The Hague to ask for support for the rail link between Avantis and Aachen....[more]
TRAM FOR LIMBURG
[LOG: Hasselt, September 10]
The provision of a fast tram which will attract 30% more passengers to public transport, as part of the Spartacus Plan for the Province of Limburg (B), has come up with EUR 372m as the figure needed to provide this facility. De Lijn,...[more]
I/C EINDHOVEN–HEERLEN–AACHEN
[LOG: Parkstad, September 8]
The European authorities have made a grant of EUR 1.5m for the extension of the intercity rail link from Eindhoven through Heerlen to Aachen. Significant in this connection are a range of projects in Parkstad and the new campus development...[more]
MAASTRICHT’S BELGIAN STATION
[LOG: Maastricht, September 7]
The Southern rail line from Maastricht to the Belgian border is, at the request of Belgian rail SNCB, to be rebuilt so that it can fit into the Belgian rail system. For that reason Maastricht is now counted as a Belgian station...[more]
SPEEDING-UP CONTAINERS
[LOG: Antwerp, September 5]
The professional organizations of the container carriers and the Antwerp stevedoring organizations, involved in loading and unloading barges, have signed a declaration of intent to speed-up the movement of containers. This is to assist...[more]
TNT SUSTAINS LEADERSHIP
[LOG: Amsterdam, September 4]
TNT confirms its leadership in the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) for the industrial transportation sector and the super sector ‘industrial goods and services.’ In addition, TNT reached the highest score of all companies...[more]
BLOCK HEATING: RUETSCHERSTR.
[INFRA: Aachen, September 3]
A two by two meter engine with 12 cylinders will produce 854 Kilowatts. This is the new block heating and generating plant, a modular facility to produce electricity and heat using cogeneration — a combination of use and power. In...[more]
ONGOING IRON RHINE SAGA
[LOG: Antwerp, September 2]
Etienne Schouppe, the federal secretary of state for mobility in Belgium, is going to talk with the Dutch government about the reactivation of the Iron Rhine. Belgium has been asking for the reactivation of the line between Antwerp...[more]
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MAASTRICHT U PLANS GROWTH
[EDU: Maastricht, September 12]
Maastricht University Plans to grow by 60 per cent in the next 12 years. This would mean 19,500 students by 2020. The current total being 12,500....[more]
MINEWATER08 CONFERENCE
[GOV: Heerlen, September 12]
The Minewater08 conference will take place in Aachen (Germany) and Heerlen October 1 and 2. The project demonstrates how the geothermal energy stored in minewater can be used as a safe and environment-friendly way to heat and cool...[more]
KEEP OUT OF THE KITCHEN
[GOV: Eupen, September 10]
The prime minister of the German-speaking community, Karl-Heinz Lambertz, and his deputy Mr Gentges, has said that it’s vital for the DG to keep out of the language conflict. It was also noted by Mr Gentges that Karl-Heinz Lambertz’...[more]
UWC AT DE GEUSSELT
[EDU: Maastricht, September 10]
United World College, Maastricht will open in August 2009 as the 13th United World College. The College will be made up of three elements, comprising international Primary and Secondary schools, together with 200 students (16+)...[more]
STUDYING MEDICINE
[EDU: Liège, September 9]
As many will know, there are restrictions on admission to medical schools. This is referred to in Europe often as a ‘Numerus clausus’, a limit on the number of people who can register. The Minister of Education for the German-speaking ...[more]
BROTHELS TO CLOSE
[GOV: Liège, September 9]
In downtown Liège 51 brothels in the Cathedral North quarter are to be closed by April 1, 2009, this was determined by the City Council. Prostitution will be restricted to the bars in the Rue Varin in the train station area. Ecolo,...[more]
GERMAN TAX NUMBER
[GOV: Aachen, September 9]
As everybody probably knows now, in Germany you have to have a valid tax identification number for life. The federal ministry responsible, BZSt, is sending letters out everyone, from children to senior citizens, to inform them of this....[more]
30-HECTARE CITY CAMPUS
[EDU/BIZ: Aachen, September 8]
The Aachener Zeitung discusses the new developments for the university campus noting that the area will be 30 hectares and the costs EUR 500m. The Super C building we’ve discussed before with its own geothermal heating, this will...[more]
MAASTRICHT LECTURES
[EDU: Maastricht, September 8]
The University of Maastricht has a special program starting Friday, September 26 through Thursday, October 30.September:
Fri 26 Maastricht Researchers Night
Mon 29 Start Lecture Series Twentieth Century Philosophy October:
Fri ...[more]
LIEGE HON DOC
[EDU: Liège, September 5]
On the opening of the academic year on Thursday, September 18 the focus will be on the environment and the University of Liège will be granting an honorary doctorate to Rajendra Pachauri, the president of the intergovernmental group...[more]
EUR 100,000 FOR CATHEDRAL
[GOV: Aachen, September 2]
The governor of the Cologne region, of which Aachen is a part, has assigned EUR 100,000 from the state’s funds. This sum is for the restoration of the inside of Aachen cathedral’s octagonal dome. This is the third stage and a total...[more]
MAASTRICHT U’S INDIA FOCUS
[EDU: Maastricht, September 2]
‘Based in Europe, focused on the world’ was the theme of Maastricht University’s opening ceremony of the 2008/09 academic year. On September 1 all activities — a symposium, various preliminary programs and the academic session...[more]
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WELLNESS FOR KIDS
[HEALTH: Spa, September 13]
Wellness Concept International is a Belgian company that specializes in the study, development and completion of spa centers. These are centers for esthetics, beauty treatments and wellness. They’ve introduced a new concept for the...[more]
BIOSTATISTICS IN HASSELT
[LIFE-SCI/EDU: Hasselt, September 10]
The Center for Statistics (CenStat) at the University of Hasselt and the Bio-statistical Center at the University of Louvain are going to cooperate closely in the inter-university Institute for Biostatistics and Statistical...[more]
INFO ON CERVICAL CANCER
[HEALTH: Maastricht, September 9]
In the Netherlands 600 women are infected by cervical cancer annually and the disease kills 200 annually. Cervical cancer is virtually always caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV), and on Monday, September 22 at 19:30 there...[more]
SUMMUM MAGAZINE
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, September 8]
SUMMUM magazine is the magazine for external contacts and staff of the University of Maastricht’s Medical Center and the most recent issue contains the following information.The developments between Aachen and Maastricht ...[more]
RESUSCITATION
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, September 8]
If your heart stops beating you can die, but it doesn’t have to happen. The chance of survival increases if there is an adequate and rapid response. You should know if someone has a heart attack what you have to do, and for...[more]
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ENERGY THINK TANK
[SCI-TECH: Aachen, September 11]
Representatives of RWE, E.ON, both power companies, the state of North-Rhine Westphalia and the University of Cologne have signed a cooperative agreement. The objective of this agreement is the further development of energy research...[more]
JUELICH INFO
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, September 2]
The Jülich Research Center has recently produced publications of a general interest. The first being a bilingual story (German & English) of its Physics Nobel Prize winner Peter Grünberg. This is a pleasant well-illustrated booklet...[more]
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A PILGRIMAGE TO LIEGE
[LEI: Maastricht, September 15]
There is to be a pilgrimage, in the footsteps of St Lambert, from Maastricht to Liège on Saturday September 20, starting between 06.00hrs and 07.00hrs at St Lambert’s Chapel in Maastricht and ending at St Paul’s Cathedral Liège,...[more]
ARTHUR LEIPZIG
[LEI: Aachen, September 14]
The Suermondt-Ludwig Museum in Aachen is going to show the work of the important American photographer, Arthur Leipzig, from September 20 through December 14 under the heading of ‘Arthur Leipzig. Next Stop New York.’ A selection of...[more]
JACK MILLION BAND
[LEI: Lanaken, September 14]
The Jack Million Band is in the headlines. It will feature in the coming issue of Niveau TV Magazine and on TVLimburg. On September 14 it will be on national radio in the US coast to coast, and NCRV television is also preparing a...[more]
A KOREAN ARTIST
[LEI: Düren, September 14]
The Leopold-Hoesch Museum in Düren is presenting the latest work of the Korean artist Seo, and has awarded her the Meilenstein (Milestone) art prize, which is a prize from the Hamburg Prize Foundation. It’s linked to an exhibition...[more]
PARKSTAD BALLOON FESTIVAL
[LEI: Parkstad, September 14]
For the fourth time the Parkstad Balloon Festival will be held at the Chateaux Hoensbroek on September 26, 27 and 28. Twenty balloons will rise into the sky and they will be Dutch, Belgian, German, British and Spanish balloons....[more]
A-MEUSE-BOUCHE
[LEI: Visé, September 12]
A-meuse-bouche is the name of a new English-language web site, based in Meuse-Rhine that will and is already be publishing independent restaurant reviews. Give it a whirl....[more]
LADY MACBETH
[LEI: Liège, September 12]
Do go and see Macbeth at the Royal Walloon Opera. If you get this letter on the 15th, as you should do, the only opportunities remaining will be on Tuesday, September 16 at 20:00, Thursday, September 18 at 20:00, Saturday, September...[more]
MUSIC IN THE BARN
[LEI: Fourons, September 12]
There will be a concert in the Barn in Fourons on October 12. In addition to Brahms and Chopin, the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu will also be on the program. ...[more]
CYCLE TRACK IN THE EIFEL
[LEI/LOG: Euskirchen, September 11]
In the district of Euskirchen the cycle tracks will be further developed and a disused rail track will provide a new cycle track from Stadtkyll to the Belgium border at Losheim. Construction can start in 2010 and involves...[more]
JEAN-PHILIPPE RIEU
[LEI: Heerlen, September 10]
AZUR Fantasies of Passion premiers on September 23 at 20:30 in the Limburgzaal of the Heerlen Theater. ‘AZUR Fantasieën van Hartstocht’ is a multimedia musical theater performance presented by Jean-Philippe Rieu. There are romantic...[more]
MONTZEN MAKES MUSIC
[LEI: Montzen, September 10]
There is to be a festival with 30 concerts in Montzen within context of the EuRegionale. It’s being held on September 27 at the Place Communale in Montzen. You can obtain further information from +32 (0)87 78 32 41....[more]
MAASTRICHT DEBATES
[LEI: Maastricht, September 10]
Maastricht Debates will deal with globalization, European relations and international cooperation, with the focus of 2008-2009 being on the role of Europe in the World in economic, social, political and cultural terms. And, more...[more]
TEMPO COLOR
[LEI: Liège, September 9]
‘Tempo Color’ is a festival in Liège that concentrates on fair trade and runs through October 16 with a whole range of different events: music at the university and the city center, and a colloquium on social economics. ...[more]
THE GREEN CARD
[LEI: Maastricht, September 8]
Eighteen restaurants now have been using a green menu for the last two months. The formal start took place at a special location, the oldest watermill in the Netherlands, The Bishop’s Mill, in the heart of Maastricht.The ‘green ...[more]
A COALFACE
[LEI: Genk, September 8]
There is a series of activities at the COALFACE in the Belgian mining area which reflects on the history of the industry. These include an expo on 'Terrain Vague' with Bettina Steinacker and a lecture on ‘My Landscape’ by Jelle Therry....[more]
JACQUES BERNDORF’S NEW BOOK
[LEI: Einruhr, September 2]
Jacques Berndorf has come up with another detective story. His stories generally take place in the Eifel area. The new book is his sixteenth and called Mond über der Eifel (Moon Above the Eifel). This sixteenth detective story takes...[more]
BORDER MUSIC FESTIVAL
[LEI: Aachen, September 2]
An extensive border music festival as part of the EuRegionale 2008 has been under way for some time now. On September 20 there will be a Supertramp Revival in Moresnet and in Montzen on Saturday, September 22 there will be an Art and...[more]
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