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	<title>Crossroads</title>
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	<description>Web magazine for expatriates living in Maastricht</description>
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		<title>links for 2008-12-04</title>
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Bring young people back to science
Young Europeans are shunning science degrees in greater numbers than ever before. If this trend continues, the EU will start to lag behind China and India in scientific research and development, threatening European competitiveness and prosperity. A workshop held in Maastricht, the Netherlands earlier this year looked at ways of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to TH!NK ABOUT IT</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The EJC has registered 50 bloggers for the first Europe-wide blogging competition, TH!NK ABOUT IT. We’ll get going with the January 2009 launch event, running until the European Parliamentary Elections in June.
TH!NK ABOUT IT will host three bloggers from each EU member state in a a forum alive with debate and discussion - a dynamic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2008-12-03</title>
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Maastricht winkelt het lekkerst
Maastricht is volgens de consumentenbond de prettigste stad om te winkelen. Maastricht krijgt een 7,7 van het Nederlandse publiek, en wordt op de voet gevolgd door Deventer, Groningen, Haarlem en ’s Hertogenbosch. De volgorde is alfabetisch: deze steden delen de tweede plaats met een 7,6.
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Maastricht krijgt subsidie voor project Karosseer
De gemeente [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Integration debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From today&#8217;s edition of Radio Netherlands Press review:
Trouw report on Tuesday&#8217;s integration debate in parliament. The Christian Democrats, supported by the conservative VVD and the Freedom Party, introduced a proposal which would require potential immigrants to have completed secondary education and be fluent in either Dutch or English.
The proposal is at odds with the right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>links for 2008-12-02</title>
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Zuid-Limburg getroffen door inbraakgolf
Zuid-Limburg heeft te maken met een inbraakgolf. Volgens de politie Limburg-Zuid is na een jarenlange daling sprake van een opvallende stijging van het aantal woninginbraken.
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Ruim eenderde Maastrichtse ouderen is eenzaam
Ruim eenderde van de Maastrichtenaren in de leeftijd van 65 tot 74 jaar voelt zich matig eenzaam. Voor 800 mensen (4%) geldt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MVV, more than 100 years of football in Maastricht</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://crossroadsmag.eu/2008/12/mvv"> <img title="Ole Tobiasen, MVV Maastricht, photo by Gina Vodegel" src="http://crossroadsmag.eu/images/2008/feature/MVV/otobiasen3.jpg" border="0" alt="Ole Tobiasen, MVV Maastricht, photo by Gina Vodegel" width="295" height="224" align="left" /></a>

For expatriates who want to get a true feel of Maastricht and its people, visiting a game of football club <a href="http://www.mvv.nl">MVV</a> comes highly recommended. Moreover, the current selection of MVV is very international: out of the selection of 23 players, 14 come from abroad! 

A profile of Maastricht's very own football club by Gina Vodegel.
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		<title>Cheaper by the dozen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://crossroadsmag.eu/2008/12/cheaper-by-the-dozen/"> <img src="http://crossroadsmag.eu/images/2008/expat/cheaper/sweet_family.jpg" alt="The Sweet Family at the Singapore Visitors Centre, by chooyutshing via Flickr" title="Sweet Family at the Singapore Visitors Centre, by chooyutshing via Flickr" align="left" width="295" height="200" border="0" /> </a>

Becoming a parent in a foreign country involves its own set of challenges, Singaporian expat Malia Janssen has discovered . "Most of us who came here were well aware of the adjustments we would have to make (like learning a new language) but nothing could have prepared us for the intractable realities of motherhood," she writes in a poignant testimony.]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Dutch negative about foreigners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a new report by the Social and Cultural Planning Office of the Netherlands (SCP), people who live in the countryside are more negative about foreigners than city dwellers. The SCP report says  almost 50 percent of rural dwellers say there are too many foreigners in the Netherlands as against just 38 percent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crossroadsmag.eu/2008/12/rural-dutch-negative-about-foreigners/</link>
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		<title>14 Dec: Black Gospel Christmas concert in Wittevrouwenveld</title>
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The Rainbow Gospel Singers will on Sunday 14 November give a free Black Gospel Christmas concert in the Maastricht district Wittevrouwenveld.
Time: 4.30 pm - 6 pm
Location: Onze Lieve Vrouw van Lourdes church, President Rooseveltlaan 215
Entrance: free
The concert will be part of a small-scale Manus van Alles festival with a Christmas market on the renovated Volta [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crossroadsmag.eu/2008/12/14-dec-black-gospel-christmas-concert-in-wittevrouwenveld/</link>
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		<title>links for 2008-12-01</title>
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Dutch December Stamp price rise
The cost of the Dutch December Stamp is to rise from 29 to 34 cents.
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M&#039;tricht wil culturele hoofdstad worden
Maastricht stelt zich kandidaat als culturele hoofdstad van Europa in 2018. Dat maakte de gemeente vrijdag bekend.
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Maastricht, de gezelligste stad van Nederland?
Maastricht heeft wel een gezellige binnenstad, oude straatjes en gebouwen, [...]]]></description>
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