14-15 May: L’Intrus, a performance by theatre collective Het Geluid in English
May 5, 2008 Leave a Comment
The new interdisciplinary theatre collective Het Geluid presents its new performance
L’INTRUS Fremkörper #2
Dates: 14 (opening night), 15 and 16 May on the new Maastricht Toneelstad Festival
Location: Theater aan het vrijthof
Time: 21:00
Reservations: 043 -350 55 55
Ticket: 10 euro
EXTRA: ON THE 16th of MAY HET GELUID THROWS A PARTY in TAKE FIVE DAS FREMKöRPER FEST WITH [...]
Netherlands Europe’s third exporting country
May 5, 2008 Leave a Comment
Recent figures by Eurostat show that last year, the Netherlands was the EU’s third exporting country after Germany and France. One of the reasons is the fact that the Netherlands plays an important part in the distribution of goods to other European countries. Dutch exports also grew substantially in 2007. If the current trend continues, [...]
Volunteer work takes a step back
May 5, 2008 Leave a Comment
Dutch daily Trouw voices concern about the effect that modern-day living is having on volunteer work. According to the head of the Dutch Sunflower charity, which offers support to the chronically ill, the disabled and the elderly, “government policy is damaging volunteer work” and a major shortage of volunteers is looming.
The paper explains “employees now [...]
Gay marriage costs Frenchman citizenship
May 5, 2008 Leave a Comment
Frenchman Frederic Minvielle has been a productive, happy resident of the Netherlands for the past six years, and even married a Dutch national in 2003. But his placid existence took on Kafkaesque twist earlier this year, when French authorities informed Minvielle that his expatriate idyll had cost him his French citizenship. The main reason, according [...]
State earns 400 million euros a year from cannabis bars
May 5, 2008 Leave a Comment
The Dutch state earns 400 million euros annually in tax revenues from ‘coffee shops,’ as the Dutch cannabis cafes are called. Sales in the sector total around 2 billion euros, according to conservative estimates by TV programme Reporter.
Reporter calculates that the some 730 coffee shops in the Netherlands sell around 265,000 kilos of hashish and [...]
Merkel receives Charlemagne Prize for promoting European unity
May 2, 2008 Leave a Comment
French President Nicolas Sarkozy praised Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel as she received the prestigious Charlemagne Prize for European leadership. He said she had taught him patience.
European leaders gathered in the German city of Aachen on Thursday, May 1, to pay tribute to Merkel’s contributions to European unity.
For her part, Merkel reminded Europeans of the [...]
