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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 2009-01-06</title>
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-15 in Maastricht
Afgelopen nacht was het het koudst bij Maastricht Aachen-Airport: daar was het bijna 15 graden onder nul. Voor de komende nacht wordt nog iets strengere vorst verwacht. Op sommige plaatsen zou het wel eens 17 tot 18 graden kunnen gaan vriezen.
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Netherlands&#039; first Moroccan mayor inaugurated
Ahmed Aboutaleb has been inaugurated as Mayor of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>9 Dec-21 Feb: Cradle to Cradle - Hype or Future, an exhibition at Centre Céramique Maastricht</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Centre Céramique Maastricht presents the exhibition: Cradle to Cradle - Hype or Future
Limburg as breeding ground for sustainable thinking and action 
A happy, new, clean world of plenty, in which good products are manufactured, cars continue to be driven and designer lamps remain lit. No tales of sombre times and consuming less, and no reverting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crossroadsmag.eu/2009/01/9-dec-21-feb-cradle-to-cradle-hype-or-future-an-exhibition-at-centre-ceramique-maastricht/</link>
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		<title>Immigration reaches record level</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Net population growth in the Netherlands numbered 76 thousand people in 2008, nearly 30 thousand more than in 2007. The strong growth is the result of an immigration surplus, the first in five years. A record number of 140 thousand immigrants came to live in the Netherlands in 2008. The number of labour migrants from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RNW partnership with NRC Handelsblad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Radio Netherlands Worldwide has launched a partnership with the international website of the Dutch national daily, NRC Handelsblad.
Under the arrangement, the two sites exchange Dutch-related news and current affairs articles via RSS feeds. In addition, they&#8217;ll publish a selection of background stories and commentary articles on their respective home pages.
The collaboration aims to widen the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crossroadsmag.eu/2009/01/rnw-partnership-with-nrc-handelsblad/</link>
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		<title>Maastricht launches redesigned website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The municipality of Maastricht has redesigned its website at www.maastricht.nl
The main site is obviously in Dutch but there is already a great deal of information available in English as well, divided into five categories: contact information, inhabitants, visitors, entrepreneurs and politics. The French and German sections are still under construction.
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		<title>Maastricht plays host to Zimbabwe’s future leaders</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://crossroadsmag.eu/2008/12/zimbabwe/"><img src="http://crossroadsmag.eu/images/2008/feature/Zimbabwe/crossroadsmag.jpg" alt="Shaun Matsheza, photo by Felix Spira" title="Shaun Matsheza, photo by Felix Spira" align="left" width="295" height="201" border="0" /></a>

Through contacts at the Dutch Embassy in South Africa, 17 students in their early twenties from across Zimbabwe were able to organize themselves and come to Maastricht to study while being granted refugee status in the Netherlands. "We declined a system that arrested our human rights," says Themba Maphenduka, "that is why we are in Maastricht today." A report by Alex Derry for Crossroads.
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		<title>links for 2008-12-19</title>
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Netherlands to strengthen flood fortifications
The Dutch government on Thursday unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan to reinforce dykes and the coastline and augment fresh water supplies in the face of rising sea levels due to global warming.
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Hema to open branch in Paris
Department store Hema, one of the Netherlands&#039; most popular chains, will open its first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Winter break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear readers,
Crossroads is taking a short winter break from December 22, 2008 till January 5, 2009.
Best wishes for a healthy and happy New Year!
Sueli Brodin
Crossroads editor
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		<link>http://crossroadsmag.eu/2008/12/winter-break/</link>
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		<title>Share of seniors, foreigners in population to increase more sharply</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dutch population will grow from 16.5 million today to 17.5 million in 2040, 500,000 more that previously estimated. By then, 26 percent will be over-65s and about as many foreigners, the Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) predicted yesterday.
In 2006 CBS predicted population growth to 17 million inhabitants up to 2040. &#8220;The new forecast is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crossroadsmag.eu/2008/12/share-of-seniors-foreigners-in-population-to-increase-more-sharply/</link>
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		<title>Minister wants to abolish Turkish national service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The national service requirement in Turkey that thousands of Dutch citizens have to complete is an impediment to integration in the Netherlands, in the view of Integration Minister Eberhard van der Laan.
Van der Laan wants to bring up Turkish national service within the cabinet. His aim is to persuade the Turkish government to drop the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://crossroadsmag.eu/2008/12/minister-wants-to-abolish-turkish-national-service/</link>
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