BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY
MITSUBISHI TAKES OVER NEDCAR
[IND: Stockholm, February 26]
Reuters reports via Just-auto.com that the
Mitsubishi Motor Corporation is to take over Volvo's (Ford) 50 per cent stake in NedCar,
effective March 30. The Volvo S40/V40 will continue to be produced at the Born, Limburg/NL
until mid-2004.
http://www.nedcar.nl
MEDIA SHOW IN AACHEN
[BIZ:Aachen, February 25]
A brochure documenting the film and media business in the
Aachen region will be presented at the Aachen Chamber of Commerce on March 5 at 18.00 hrs.
The program will be introduced by Mayor Dr Juergen Linden and Professor Helmut Thoma,
responsible for media affairs in North Rhine Westphalia. Among the other speakers will be
Andrea Baaken, of the Film Foundation NRW, Jacques Berndorf, the author of Eifel-Krimis,
Juergen Drewes, general manager of the Chamber, Dennis Kron, from Kron u.Flammen,
Pyrotechnics and Special Effects and Miquel Spratt, Set Point, Location & Services
GmbH. Moderator will be Bernd Buettgens of the Aachener Zeitung.
http://www.ihk-aachen.de
WALLOON BUSINESS PRESIDENT
[BIZ: Liège, February 24]
UWE, Union Wallonne des Entreprises, a business
federation with 16 sectoral federations has a new president, Jean-Jacques Verdickt. Mr
Verdickt is a member of the Management Board of Fortis bank and has wide experience both
abroad and in the Province of Liège. There is
extensive information about UWE in the latest issue of Liège
Province d'Europe, nr 283 Jan/Feb. There are also 400 useful addresses, relating to
doing business in the Walloon region, in the web guide on the UWE site
http://www.uwe.be
http://www.lpe.be
EUREGIO CONTACT 2001(2)
[BIZ: Maastricht, February 24]
Industrial suppliers and contractors are coming to
Maastricht to do business with one another and with buyers from various industrial
sectors. The fair will take place from April 25 through 27 in the MECC. On the last day,
Friday April 27, there will be a business lunch (12.00-14.00 hrs) with an e-procurement
theme: 'From Contacts to Contracts' .
http://www.mecc.nl
MORE CONSTRUCTION IN LIEGE
[BIZ: Liège, February 21]
Media City in Longdoz (Liège)
represents an investment of close to EUR 49.6m. The city has a cinema complex of
11,000m², with sixteen auditoria and 4,000 seats, and a 2,000m² discotheque. There will
be a zone for virtual games (12,500m²), offices (3,500m²), an 120-room hotel and cinema,
in addition to television studios (3,675 m²). There will also be 1,150 parking spaces
underground. The quai Mozart to the rue Gretry will be refurbished to allow ease of access
to the complex. 5,000 tons of steel from old factories in the area has been removed
and recycled; as has 35,000m² of 5cm thick concrete which will also be re-used in the
project. Media City is expected to open in the first quarter of 2003. M-R J will be
giving further detailed information on construction projects in Liège in coming issues.
http://www.liege.be
EUR 317m FOR CMI
[IND: Liège, February 20]
Cockerill Mechanical Industries has recorded orders worth
over EUR 317m in the energy, defence and steel sectors. Seventeen energy recovery systems
for leading-edge combined cycle electricity power stations include: ten in Turkey, five in
Spain and two in Argentina. These are power stations with an installed capacity of 6230
megawatts. General Motors Canada has ordered 130 of the latest generation of the 90mm
turret/gun developed by CMI. Steel. CMI will also supply the Tata Group with a sheet
galvanizing line destined for the automotive industry with a capacity of 300,000 tons per
annum. In this project, they will be assisted by engineers from the Cockerill
Sambre/Usinor Group, now the largest steel producer in the world. (There is concern that
rationalization within this large steel combine might effect Flemish or Walloon plants
producing the flat rolled carbon steel used in the automotive and white goods sectors.
Ed.). A CMI subsidiary will also provide thermal equipment for a combined
galvanizing/paint line for the Spanish steel company Siderurgica de Bilbao.
http://www.cmi.be/group/press/c0011_en.htm
MATSUSHITA SOLE OWNER OF PMBC
[IND: Tessenderlo, February 19]
The Japanese Matsushita Group (Panasonic) is going to take
over the shares of Philips Electronics in the Philips Matsushita Battery Corporation
(PMBC) in Tessenderlo. This will make the Japanese sole owners of this plant. PMBC was
hitherto owned on a 50/50 basis by Philips and Matsushita. The company makes batteries
sold under the Philips and Panasonic labels. Six hundred people are employed in the
business, which was established in 1970. In 1990 sales reached EUR 74.4m; EUR 210m last
year.
http://www.hbvl.be
NEW BUDGET HOTEL IN AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, February 16]
In addition to the luxury Dorint Quellenhof hotel in
Aachen, another 3-star Dorint hotel is to be built in the pedestrian area in the
heart of the city. The hotel will have 107 comfortable rooms and eight suites with a first
floor restaurant to seat 80. A lobby bar will seat 15 on the ground floor.The hotel will
also have four conference rooms with a total 200m² of floor space. The enclosed
underground parking will have 35 parking slots.
http://www.dorint.de
ULTRADOCS AND BERTELSMANN
[IND: Heerlen, February 13]
Ultradocs International BV has entered into a cooperative
agreement with Bertelsmann Financial Services Ltd. to implement joint sales and marketing
activities, first and foremost in Ultradocs' market in Benelux and Germany. This means
that Ultradocs will be able to offer its clients the Bertelsmann Financial
Services-portfolio and Bertelsmann in its turn will be able to offer clients Ultradocs'
electronic billing and payment solutions. The association with Bertelsmann also means that
Ultradocs will be able to independently supply one-stop shopping EBPP-Solutions via their
other (international) partnerships.
http://www.ultradocs.com
http://www.BertelsmannFS.com
AUTOMOTIVE INNOVATION
[IND: Auburn Hills, Michigan, February 12]
FEV Motorentechnik GmbH of Aachen, Germany, has been
recognized as the most innovative engineering services provider, based on a survey
conducted by Automotive Engineering Partners. In their survey of 200 automotive industry
development leaders, FEV was ranked first in the engineering services sector. FEV is an
independent engineering services provider, operating worldwide. For over 22 years, the
newest developments in engine design and technology have been initiated and transferred to
prototypes in FEV's engine test cells. The company employs 1,000 globally. At the Society
of Automotive Engineers' World Congress 2001, the company demonstrated an emissions
concept for SUVs, improving emission levels and fuel consumption. The result showed that
it was possible to replace both active catalyst heating and a HC adsorber with a
cost-effective emissions-control concept that resulted in values 50 per cent below SULEV
limits for HC and NOx components.
http://www.fev-et.com
FUEL CELLS FOR FORD
[IND: Brussels, February 6]
Ford Europe chairman has stated that non-polluting
hydrogen-powered car technology could replace conventional oil-fuelled vehicles within a
generation. Ford will be road testing a fleet of fuel cell cars within the next two years.
Ford is apparently also working with Vodafone on telematics systems.
http://www.ford.be
LOGISTICS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
RWE IN DUTCH GAS MARKET
[INFRA: Essen, February 23]
The RWE concern, major energy supplier in North Rhine
Westphalia, has increased its role in the Dutch gas market. Retrospectively, effective 1
January this year, RWE Gas Aktiengesellschaft Dortmund has taken a 90 per cent stake in
Obragas Holding N.V., Helmond. Currently RWE Gas has around 365,000 clients in the
Netherlands. This is a market share of around seven per cent. RWE Gas is also active in
Hungary, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics and delivers gas to two million clients in
these countries and up to 50 per cent of the gas requirement in Hungary. RWE Gas is the
second gas supplier in Germany. When its foreign activities are included its gas sales
amount to 280 billion kWh per annum.
http://www.cs.rwe.com/rwe_presse/mitteilungen
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL MAASTRICHT
[INFRA: Maastricht, February 22]
Maastricht's MECC was host to the leading Air Traffic
Control 2001 conference for the 11th time. It is essential an event for professionals
involved in the air traffic control industry, as service providers, regulators or
suppliers. The conference was addressed by Tineke Netelenbos, Minister of Transport,
Public Works & Water Management on 21 February. She said, 'there can be no doubt that
technical and operational measures are no longer sufficient. We need a new blueprint for
air traffic management. European airspace is too fragmented. Its zones and corridors
inhibit the free movement of aircraft. Our airspace has been split up by national and
military interests, as well as the outdated notion of flight corridors, which takes no
notion of current navigation and safety equipment. We must do away with these barriers.
What we need is a single European sky, where national borders are no longer relevant.'
Strong stuff! The next day the Minister attended the opening ceremony of the celebrated
Maastricht Carnival, where she was appointed the person responsible for municipal water
and beer supplies.
http://www.airtrafficmanagement.net/viewStory.asp?id=125
http://www.conference.janes.com
PLUG-IN BANDWIDTH
[INFRA: Essen, February 20]
RWE Powerline GmbH (Essen), a wholly-owned
subsidiary of RWE Plus AG and the Ascom Powerline Communication AG (Bern) have concluded a
long-term supply agreement. The Swiss will supply modems and network management systems
for Powerline Communications. This gives customers high speed internet access from the
power supply socket in their houses. Manfred Remmel, member of the board of RWE Plus says,
'we have provided the conditions for the start-up of Powerline technology in our network
area.' Powerline technology transfers data at up to 2 Mb/s and is considerably faster than
ISDN. Using PLC, the client can use any power point in the house to plug in to the
Internet. Additional cabling is not necessary. This high speed internet is always on. In
the Netherlands, Essent apparently says that the network system would prevent use of this
application.
http://www.cs.rwe.com/rwe_presse/mitteilungen
EUROREGIONAL CONSTRUCTION PRIZE
[INFRA: Aachen, February 19]
The Aachen-based Kathy Beys Foundation is again offering a
Euroregional Construction Prize in 2001. The focus this time is on a durable structure for
trade, services, production and crafts. Contributions can be made by companies,
municipalities, institutions or their architects. The prize is EUR 5,000. Closing date for
entries is May 19, 2001. The prize will be awarded in October. Information is available
from Professor Fred Ranft, 00.49.241.38511.
http://www.aachener-zeitung.de
LANAYE LOCK DEAL RATIFIED
[LOG: Lanaken, February 19]
The Walloon Premier Jean-Claude van
Cauwenberghe and the Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok ratified the accord on the construction
of the fourth lock in the Meuse at Lanaken on February 18. This will be the largest lock
in Europe and will improve the flow of river traffic to Rotterdam. See other reports
(Issues 1&7).
http://www.hbvl.be
EUPEN-STOLBERG RAIL CONNECTION
[INFRA: Eupen/Stolberg, February 16]
EVS, Euregio Verkehrsschienennetz GmbH in Stolberg will be
running trains to Eupen within a couple of years. Ewald Schmitz, general manager of the
Eupen company, and Edgar Hungs, advisor to the East Belgian Tourist Minister Bernd
Gentges, have been working on the issue for several months. The track will run between
Eupen, Raeren, Walheim and Stolberg and provide a better environment-friendly route
between the Eupen and Aachen areas. It will also provide additional access to the TGV in Liège and promote tourism. The cost for reactivation the line between
Eupen and Stolberg and for the purchase of diesel locomotive will be between between EUR
25m-30m. The connection can be expected in 2003 or 2004.
http://www.bsr-online.com/evs
http://www.aachener-zeitung.de
MORE GAS TO THE NETHERLANDS
[INFRA: Emden, February 15]
Five utilities Epon, Eon, Una, Essent and Delta have taken
over the 2bn m³/yr Norwegian gas supply contract which comes ashore in Emden, Germany.
When one remembers the flow coming in from RWE and flows from Britain through Flanders to
the Fourons area, there is a lot of gas floating around in northwestern Europe.
http://www.statoil.com
CHANGE OF COMMAND
[INFRA: Brunssum, February 12]
There has been a change in the military
infrastructure. General Sir John Deverell, UK Army, will take up his appointment as the
new Commander in Chief Allied Forces North Europe (CINCNORTH) on Friday March 23, 2001
when there will be a Change of Command Ceremony at Regional Headquarters Allied Forces
North Europe (RHQ AFNORTH) in Brunssum, the Netherlands. General Deverell is the first
British general to take command at Brunssum and he will be taking over from General
Joachim Spiering, who has been Commander in Chief since March 1998. General Deverell's
previous appointment was Deputy Commander in Chief UK Land Forces.
http://www.afnorth.nato.int
RWE PUSHES THE FUEL CELL
[INFRA: Essen, February 8]
The President of RWE, Dietmar Kuhnt, believes that fuel
cells for de-centralized heat and power generation will have an important place in the
energy mix of the future. RWE has set up a fuel cell pavillion in Essen and is going to
set up a demonstration plant using the solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) from Siemens
Westinghouse. In the spring of 2002 RWE, Thyssengas, Siemens Westinghouse and the Italian
Enel want to have a world first with an SOFC fuel cell with integrated gas turbine and
network connection.
http://www.cs.rwe.com/rwe_presse/mitteilungen
FRENCH PARTNER FOR TRIANEL
[INFRA: Aachen, February 7]
Trianel European Energy Trading GmbH platform for utilities
and sales of electricity, has added a French partner to its German and Dutch founders.
Régie d'Electricité de la Vienne (Poitiers), in the west of France, will be supplying
approximately 800 GWh/a of power to 120,000 clients each year. The parties are working out
conditions for the establishment of a new company within Trianel. Trianel has acquired
Energie und Wasser Luebeck GmbH, the Nordhorner Versorgungsbetriebe and Stadtwerke
Schramberg as partners so far. Last year they acquired ONS Energy Services BV in Schiedam
and sold 1.8 billion Kwh for EUR 30m. Among their clients are Philips and Zentis.
http://www.trianel.com
GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION
ACCESS TO THE SOUTHERN NETHERLANDS
[GOV: Maastricht, February 21]
The Provinces of Zeeland, Noord-Brabant and
Limburg and the co-operative body for the Eindhoven region (SRE) have handed an
accessibility profile to the Minister of Transport and Waterways. This Southern Alliance
has presented an integrated view of the southern part of the Netherlands, reminding
central government of the economic importance of the south. The government is often
inclined to look upon the rest of the country as adjuncts of the main ports of Rotterdam
and Amsterdam/Schiphol. Discussions between the Minister and the South Netherlands
Alliance will begin in March.
http://www.limburg.nl
DE LA RIVE BOX IN FOOD COMMITTEE
[GOV: Maastricht, February 14]
ECDPM (European Centre for Development
Policy Management) Maastricht's Professor Louk de la Rive Box has been appointed a member
of the Dutch Biotechnology and Food Committee. This committee will organize a
broadly-based public debate on biotechnology and food. The cabinet will make clear what
conditions apply to biotechnology in relation to food.
http://www.pers.unimaas.nl
LOME AND EUROPE
[EDU: Maastricht, February 14]
ECDPM has produced an overview of the new
ACP-EU Partnership Agreement signed in Cotonou in June 2000, a unique form of North-South
cooperation. The partnership agreement is a comprehensive aid and trade agreement
concluded between 77 African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and the European Union. The
agreement, which will last for twenty years, contains a clause allowing it to be revised
every five years. Covering each five-year period, it indicates the total resources
available to the ACP through the European Development Fund. From now to the starting date,
the fund has EUR 15.2bn for the ACP. In addition, outstanding funds from previous EDFs can
be used. These amount to approximately EUR 10bn. The central objective of the Partnership
Agreement is to reduce and eventually eradicate poverty by contributing to sustainable
development and to the gradual integration of ACP countries into the world economy. The
principles are: equality of partners and ownership of development strategies;
participation; dialogue and mutual obligations and differentiation and regionalization.
This document will be a guiding light in the work of organizations like the European
Centre for Development Policy Management in the coming years.
http://www.oneworld.org/ecdpm/
MEDICINE AND TECHNOLOGY
CYCOS FOR CALL CENTERS
[TECH: Aachen, February 23]
Cycos has produced a world's first at CeBIT 2001. This is a
further developed version of the message routing system, which makes Cycos the first
provider in the UM market to provide a solution for advanced unified messaging, fax,
e-mail, voice mail + CTI, Web and WAP with an integrated call center. The functions run on
the basis of a unified server. The option of multimedia and mobile news management is a
breakthrough, particularly for call centers. The message routing system provides Cycos
with the basis for improved customer service and gives them a step forward in the
competition stakes. The system can be integrated into existing It/telecom environments.
http://www.cycosmaier.de
KVDZ AACHEN CHOOSES K-IRP SOFTWARE
[TECH: Aachen, February 21]
Aachen's communal data processing center, KDVZ, has decided
to offer the 22 networked municipalities K-IRP software. Agreements have been signed
between KDVZ, in whose catchment area 800,000 people live, and ifs GmbH bringing the total
number of people served by this system to 13 million. The software is a financial
management system for public services, which deals with budgeting, implementation and cash
business.
http://www.ifs-gmbh.de
CERTAINLY NOT DOTTY
[TECH: Roermond, February 19]
Dottism NV based in Roermond intends to grow into the
world's largest interactive communicative portal for individuals, businesses and
communities. By leveraging viral power's unique 'linking' technology, dottism promises to
become one of the fastest growing web-based applications ever. The powerful combination of
'linking' and communications means that dottism will offer a high traffic, high usage,
mobile Internet application. Currently, dottism is open to both investors and partners.
http://www.dottism.com
ELECTRALIS FOCUS
[TECH: Liège, February 19]
Electralis will be held from March 14 through 17 in Liège. In its campus program the focus is on five fields critical to
the future of electricity: Robotics & Automation; Microsystems, Nanotechnologies &
MEMS; Aerospace Research; Information and Communication Technologies and Power &
Energy.
http://www.electralis.com
AID FOR E-COMMERCE PLATFORMS
[TECH: Liège, February 19]
The government of the Walloon region has decided to extend
the deadline for aid on e-commerce platforms to March 30. Aid can be up to 50 per cent of
expenses with a ceiling of EUR 12,394.
FORUM TELECOM will be holding ten meetings in the first
half of 2001, and reorganizing e-commerce workshops. There will also be meetings and
specific services in response to requests of the 80 members of the Forum's section C.
Clustered development is proposed.
LIEGE ON LINE is also compiling a directory of
Internet sites to which organizations in the Province of Liège
can add their links.
http://www.liegeonline.be
JUELICH WASHES 5x WHITER THAN WHITE
[TECH: Juelich, February 19]
Juelich researchers have developed a
polymer which improves the efficiency of tensides (reducing the surface tension) by
the factor of five. Tensides are the active washing ingredients in detergents which are
used both domestically and in industry. The active ingredient of the new artificial
molucule added to the detergent in small amounts is produced by neutron bombardment.
http://www.fz-juelich.de
EUROREGIONAL BREAST CANCER CENTER
[MED: Eschweiler, February 8]
Doctors and hospitals are cooperating in
the fight against breast cancer. A Euroregional Breast Cancer Center (EBZ) has been set up
in the St.Antonius hospital in Eschweiler and is supported by hospitals in
Dueren-Lendersdorf, Stolberg, Dueren, Juelich, Dueren-Birkesdorf with medical staff from
the Aachen, Dueren and Heinsberg region. The radiation therapy clinic, the institute for
pathology in Aachen, the women's self-help groups, social services and counselors are all
cooperating with the EBZ. The project will lead to earlier recognition and improved
prognosis as a result of cooperation and also contribute to diagnostic therapy and
after-care without increasing costs.
http://www.aachener-zeitung.de
ATTRACTING NEUTRONS
[TECH: Juelich, February 8]
In order to attract the location of the proposed European
spallation neutron source, ESS, with its spin-off of up to 2,000 new jobs, the town of
Juelich has decided to set up a marketing campaign. In addition to the research
facilities, emphasis will be placed on the quality of life in respect of housing,
international schooling, shopping, hotel facilities and interesting gastronomic and
leisure scene.
http://www.fz-juelich.de
EUR 0.5m FROM KRUPP TO PARSYTEC
[TECH: Aachen, February]
The Aachen-based software house Parsytec is increasingly
optimizing steel production. The company specializes in software for surface quality
control and has recently won a contract worth EUR 0.5m from Krupp Thyssen Nirosta. Within
a year their surface inspection business is expected to double.
http://www.parsytec.de
LEISURE
A TRENCHERMAN'S MUSINGS
- GREAT HAMSTER MYSTERY SOLVED
[LEI: Eijsden, February 27]
The intermittent arrest of the march of industrial
progress, occasioned by herds of invisible hamsters in the land of Charlemagne, has been
explained. In their far-sighted wisdom, those set in authority over us foresaw the coming
protein deficiency resulting from the seven great plagues of Europe, to wit: BSE,
foot-and-mouth, farmed fish toxicity, cattle bloat, swine fever, hormone-primed kine and
idle chat. Accordingly, informed by their reflection upon the history of the Aztecs while
examining the architectural details of the Prince Bishop's palace, they determined upon a
secret hamster breeding program. For, as is well known, the Aztecs were major consumers of
hamster flesh - with the odd arm and leg thrown in. Skilfull marketing preparations are
also afoot and it will not have gone unnoticed that at least one brewer in South Limburg
is using the hamster image to market his products. Clearly the objective is the creation
of a subliminal association of this little creature with the pleasures of the table. The
offer for sale of a 6-foot hamster by the London Millennium Dome might even betoken the
advent of the first McHamster restaurant.
http://www.webcontent.now
MONDIAL MAY FAIR
[LEI: Maastricht, February 27]
Maastricht's English-speaking Lions Club Mondial extends an
invitation to expatriates in Meuse-Rhine to come to its annual May Fair, to be held on
Sunday May 20 at Chateau Hoensbroek in Hoensbroek. It is a Sunday afternoon for the whole
family with food, drink and entertainment. Further information can be obtained from:
pvdt@planet.nl
THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE MEUSE
[LEI: Liège, February 22]
In September 2002, a major exhibition will be held to
present the art of the Meuse Valley, of which Liège is the capital.
The area covered will be from 's-Hertogenbosch in the Netherlands to Givet in France, from
Thuin in Belgium to Aachen in Germany. The exhibition will be held in the Salle St.Georges
in Liège and will include metalwork, famous manuscripts, gold and
silverwork, woodcarving, stone, ivory, seals and coins. They will be displayed against the
historic background of Europe in the Middle Ages. Mr Albert Lemeunier will be responsible
for the exhibition. At the moment promises have been made by the Louvre, the British
Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Domschatz, the German
Nationalmuseum and the Diocesan Museum of the City of Utrecht. An international committee
of experts will supervise the exhibition. The Golden Age of the Meuse will show pieces
from the end of the 10th to the middle of the 13th century.
http://www.liege.com
DENISE PEETERS IN MAASTRICHT
[LEI: Maastricht, February]
Release, an exhibition of sculpture and paint on
print by Denise Peeters, will be held at the Arrondissementsrechtbank in Maastricht from
March 2 to March 30 and will be open from Monday to Friday from 09.00-18.00 hrs. The
artist will be present every Thursday. The exhibition will be introduced by Jean-Pierre
Swerts, head of Culture and Tourism in the City of Hasselt.
http://www.hasselt.be
MEUSE-RHINE ROADSHOW IN MAASTRICHT
[LEI: Maastricht, February]
The exhibition covering the activities of the Meuse-Rhine
Authority which has already been seen in Liège, Tongres, Eupen
and Aachen now arrives in Maastricht and will run from March 22 through April 5 at
Government House. It will be open every day from 10.00 - 17.00 hrs, entrance is free of
charge.
http://www.euregio-mr.org
CARNIVAL IN VENICE/VERVIERS
[LEI: Verviers, February 5]
An exhibition providing a view of the Venetian Carnival
will be held in Verviers at the Centre Touristique de la Laine et de la Mode, rue
de la Chapelle 30 and will be open from 10.00 - 17.00 hrs. It will show masks, costumes
and photographs, some of the masks are for sale. There are 80 masks, 20 costumes and 30
photos. The exhibition closes March 18.
http://www.aachener-zeitung.de
LIEGE'S BOTANICAL GARDENS
[LEI: Liège, February]
The partially renovated glass houses at the Botanical
Gardens in Liège have been open since February 19, Mondays through Fridays from
09.30 - 16.00 hrs. The collection includes bromeliads, philodendra, pineapple plants and
many other varieties. The Botanical Gardens are in the Rue Louvrex (a side street of the
Rue Saint-Gilles). Admission is free.
http://www.liege.be
SKIING
[LEI: Eupen, February]
The pistes are open for skiing in the East-Belgium area.
Ski reports are available in English at:
http://www.hetweer.org/english/snow.html
Latest ski information will also be available at: http://www.eastbelgium.com/winter/htm/4/04.htm
SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT
[LEI: Aachen, February]
From March 3 through May 20 there will be live art with
dance, interaction, performance in 'space' at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in
Aachen. The first performance on March 3 at 20.00 hrs is 'Lilja', a dance video project
which takes place in a laundrette.The folder offers some interesting images.
http://www.heimat.de/ludwigforum
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