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EUROPEAN POLITICS: MEUSE-RHINE
[EDIT: Eijsden, June 15]
Steve Stevaert has been quoted* as saying that the Socialist party has been kidnapped by the 60's generation: the intellectuals, the unions and the dogmatic group, divorced from its natural constituency. He refers to these people as...[more]
EUX.TV PRESENTS 'COVERING EUROPE’
[EDIT/WEBCAST: Brussels, June 12]
In this June 2009 post-election edition, EUX.TV moderator Raymond Frenken sits down with Lisbeth Kirk, editor of EUobserver.com; Swedish freelance journalist Teresa Küchler; New Europe editor Alex Koronakis and Stafford Wadsworth,...[more]
EXPAT PODCASTS
[EDIT: Maastricht, June 10]
There is a series of podcasts recorded by some new arrivals in Maastricht from the US at the link below. It provides some instructive listening for those who are interested in the first impressions and the needs of expats in this...[more]
STEVE STEVAERT RESIGNS
[EDIT: Hasselt, June 7]
Steve Stevaert (55), the governor of Belgian Limburg and the former chairman of the SPA (Flemish socialist party), is leaving politics. It’s not immediately clear why he is leaving but he has said that he is not looking for any other...[more]
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SEACON SPORTS DAY
[BIZ/LEI: Venlo, June 15]
On June 17 and 18, from 15.00 through 22.00 hrs, Seacon, the transoceanic and transeurasian logistics specialists is hosting a major business networking event at the Seacon-De Koel Stadium in Venlo. This is the home of the VVV-Venlo...[more]
AVIATION VALLEY BIZ PARK
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, June 15/16]
Contracts for the development of the long awaited 100-hectare (almost 250 acres) Aviation Valley Business Park at Maastricht Aachen Airport will be signed June 16, at the Provada Real Estate event in Amsterdam. The partners...[more]
SPACEBEL IN PARIS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Liège, June 12]
The 100th anniversary of the Paris Air Show, which will run between June 15 and 21 in Paris, promises to be a famous vintage: the Belgian stand counts 60 exhibitors on a surface of approximately 1,100 m² in total.The software ...[more]
DRILLING FOR GAS IN LIMBURG
[BIZ: Eijsden, June 12]
A spokesman for the Queensland Gas Company (QGC) from Australia has informed the Meuse-Rhine journal, in respect of news stories about drilling for gas in Limburg, that their company QGC applied to the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs...[more]
LIMBURG CYCLE MOTOR
[BIZ: Roermond, June 11]
The Roermond company Creusen is developing a new cycle motor. This will be used next year in cycles produced with motors in the Netherlands. This was announced by Patrick Reijnders of the Creusen Electro Mechanics Industry during a meeting...[more]
TOMORROW'S HOUSING
[BIZ/EDU: Heerlen/Aachen, June 9]
On Wednesday, September 9, the foundation stone will be laid in a project in Tomorrow's housing estate. This district will have four energy-saving intelligent buildings that will be built, exhibited and run. This is a program...[more]
OXIDATIVE STRESS PROFILING
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Liège/Montreal, June 9]
Europe Cosmetiques and Probiox announced today that both companies entered into a licensing and collaboration agreement with respect to oxidative stress profiling. Under this agreement, Europe Cosmetiques acquires an exclusive...[more]
EUR 35M FOR CMP
[BIZ/EDU: Aachen, June 8]
EUR 35m is to be invested in a new Center for Mobile Propulsion(CMP) at Aachen’s RWTH University, where research and development will be carried out into emission-free, resource-saving engines. Decisive in the decision to locate this...[more]
EUR 12M FOR BMM
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Geleen, June 8]
The Dutch top Biomedical Materials Institute (BMM), a public–private partnership dedicated to research and development of novel biomedical materials and their therapeutic application, has announced that three new projects will...[more]
TNT TAKES OVER MICROPAKKET
[BIZ/LOG: Liège/Amsterdam, June 8]
TNT is taking over the logistics company Micropakket Nederland. Micropakket specialized in transport of valuable goods. TNT post says this takeover makes it possible to meet the requirements of its business clients who increasingly...[more]
EUR 15M FOR MAANKWARTIER
[BIZ/GOV: Heerlen, June 8]
Minister Eurlings presented a check for EUR 15m to the Heerlen councilor Riet de Wit at the station in Heerlen. The subsidy is part of the second tranche for the railway crossing. The ministry is concerned with helping the municipality...[more]
DSM: INDUSTRIAL BIOTECHNOLOGY
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Heerlen, June 6]
DSM ‘new style’ headed The Economist’s Technology Quarterly on June 6 and, as we’ve mentioned, it has received 392 citations in an Issue of Nutraingredients. The Heerlen-based former chemicals giant is now into industrial biotechnology....[more]
CRISIS OPPORTUNITIES
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 5]
In order to promote Maastricht in the period between June 8 and 26, the Maastricht Convention Bureau (MCB) will be meeting no fewer than 17 representatives of 14 organizations from Maastricht and the surrounding region. They will visit...[more]
MECOM SELLS 37%
[BIZ: London, June 4]
Further to the press release on April 27, 2009, the Board of Mecom Group plc ("Mecom" or the "Group"), the owner of Media Group Limburg, has announced that its subsidiary Koninklijke Wegener N.V. ("Wegener") has successfully concluded the...[more]
EUR 100M FOR FIBER-OPTICS
[BIZ/GOV: Maastricht, June 4]
A proposal has been made to set up a fiberglass network for the whole of the province of Dutch Limburg. This would be carried out by the Province with the cable company Reggefiber, which announced in April that it wanted to buy...[more]
ONLINE SHOPPING STATS
[BIZ: Aachen, June 3]
According to information published by the BITKOM organization, 42% of Germans did some purchasing last year online. If one looks at the online shopper in Europe the average percentage is 24%. Statistics are headed by Britain which has 49%...[more]
ERP DAYS
[BIZ: Aachen, June 3]
From June 16 through 18 there will be a series of workshops on Enterprise Resource Planning at the Eurogress, Monheimsallee 48, Aachen. The conference goes under the heading of ‘Successfully combining processes and systems’ and you can...[more]
RFID SCENARIOS ETC.
[BIZ: Aachen, June 3]
On June 16 at 14:00, at the Technology Center in the Europaplatz in Aachen, there will be a conference on frequency identification.[SR...[more]
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BELGIAN RAIL DEVELOPMENTS
[LOG: Fléron, June 13]
The Belgian high speed rail line between Liège and the German border has now been completed. This means that Liège-Cologne takes less than an hour and Brussels –Frankfurt is exactly 3 hours. The 35 km route with tunneling landscaping and...[more]
DAC :LIEGE TO MADRID
[LOG: Liège/Maastricht, June 11]
On June 3 Dutch Air Cargo (DAC) set up a new international air connection between Liège and Madrid operated by MiniLiner, flying a Fokker 27 with a 6-ton payload. This is in cooperation with a range of cargo companies in the...[more]
WALLOON LOGISTICS
[LOG: Namur, June 10]
The Walloon Marshall Plan to develop competitive clusters in the Walloon region of Belgium started up with five clusters in 2005; and, among them, was the crucial logistics cluster. The organization has set missions, and these are to encourage...[more]
TNT IN SOUTH AMERICA
[LOG: Liège/Amsterdam, June 3]
TNT, one of the world's leading providers of express and mail delivery services, has announced the launch of the first-to-market and only integrated road network across South America, linking the “ABC” countries, Argentina, Brazil...[more]
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GARDEN SHOW
[GOV: Aachen, June 15]
Aachen in Meuse-Rhine is in the race to hold The International Garden Show (IGA) in 2017. The slogan is “How are we going to live tomorrow?” This will also be a heading in a competition in June, July and August. To participate you have...[more]
DEFENSE MINISTERS AT ST GERLACH
[GOV: Houthem-St Gerlach, June 11]
On June 10 and 11 Château St Gerlach was the meeting place of the ministers of defense from eight countries: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Rumania, Australia and The Netherlands. These are...[more]
LANGUAGE IMMERSION
[EDU: Liège, June 7]
Following on from the intensive language courses offered in English and Dutch at Liège schools, a new program has been introduced for the start of the academic year in September 2009 for the German language.
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CROSS-BORDER QUALIFICATIONS
[EDU: Aachen, June 5]
Twenty-eight young Dutch and German people received certificates for an additional course in cross-border activity from the Chamber of Commerce in Aachen. They have studied the IT-supported production of export documents, Dutch and Economics...[more]
GLOBAL MIGRATION
[EDU: Amsterdam, June 4]
The European Mediterranean academy for young journalists is setting up a conference in 2009 for young journalists that is being organized by the Goethe Institute in The Netherlands and will run from October 5 through 16 in Amsterdam....[more]
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ORTHOPEDIC BIOTECH
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, June 12]
Biotechnological applications are central to orthopedics, this became apparent with hip and knee replacements in the 60s. Currently things are moving ahead with bioactive materials and cartilage repair technology. The department...[more]
AMBULANT PLASTIC SURGERY
[LIFE-SCI/HEALTH: Maastricht, June 10]
The Annadal Medical Center in Maastricht has started an ambulant patient plastic surgery clinic. The clinic is currently open on Wednesday afternoons from 13:30 to 16:30. It has a team of plastic surgeons operating in Maastricht,...[more]
BILHARZIA: A WORLD FIRST
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, June 2]
The BILHVAX vaccine, supported financially by the Nord-Pas de Calais region in France and the Walloon region in Belgium, was developed in partnership with Inserm, researchers from the Pasteur Institute of Lille, and Eurogentec’s scientists....[more]
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THE HERMES PROJECT
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, June 5]
The Hermes Project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and coordinated by the Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC), started on November 1, 2008. In this project, JSC is cooperating with business (PTV AG,...[more]
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MUSIC IN THE BARN
[LEI: Fourons, June 15]
The next concert in the barn will present Hanne-Joost Peeters
Singing arias by Händel and Rossini, with Marc Masson on the piano on Sunday, June 28 at 15.00hrs. Details at the link.
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PHOTOS BY JIM SUMKAY
[LEI: Liège, June 14]
From June 13 through 28 there will be an exhibition called ‘300 Instants/300 Moments. A voyage across the Euroregion (Liège, Aachen, Maastricht)’ by the photographer Jim Sumkay. At the request of Aachen, Jim Sumkay (Liège, 1954) completed...[more]
BOLLYWOOD IN MAASTRICHT
[LEI: Maastricht, June 11]
On Thursday, June 25 the Hogeschool Zuyd will organize a Bollywood party in the Kadans in Maastricht. This is to collect money for the Limburg foundation Mariamma which is concerned with looking after orphans in the province of Tamil...[more]
A DAY OF OLD MUSIC
[LEI: Alden Biesen, June 11]
The day of old music’ from the Low lands, ‘The Dutch song through the centuries’, will be on at the Landcommanderij in Alden Biesen on June 28. This is the 26th edition.
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VIJFTV
[LEI: Hasselt, June 8]
On Saturday June 27, VIJFtv will transform Hasselt into a shopping mecca for the first VIJFtv city day. Taste and shopping are the key to this day and there will be an interesting mix of shopping, gastronomy, music, visits to museums,...[more]
CORONATION IN TONGRES
[LEI: Tongres, June 7]
Tongres, the cradle of Christianity in this area, and an age-old place of pilgrimage to Mary, the mother of God, is inviting everyone to the coronation festival in honor of ‘our blessed Lady’, The Source of Our Joy. This festival is held...[more]
DOGSLEDDING IN LANDGRAAF
[LEI: Landgraaf, June 6]
On June 20 in SnowWorld, the Limburg indoor ski slope, there will be a dogsled competition, with 20 teams from different countries racing on a 500m course. It will not only be indoors, but outdoors too. Landgraaf in June has a number...[more]
ZUMBA ON STAGE
[LEI: Hasselt, June 3]
Zumba, a new Latin–American dance phenomenon, is very much center stage currently, and on June 28 there will be a show called Zumba on Stage at the Grenslandhallen in Hasselt. Check the website for further information.
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