European cardiovascular centre for Heerlen
July 9, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Maastricht University Medical Centre and the University Hospital in Aachen have joined forces to build a cardiovascular centre on an industrial area in Heerlen which straddles the border between the Netherlands and Germany.
The new centre is the first step in creating the first European university hospital with a common management and strategy, reports Tuesday’s Trouw.
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New on the Cultural Biography of Maastricht: French and German versions, Walks through Maastricht and interviews with expats
July 3, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Digital Audio Guide:
Zicht op Maastricht Mobile invites visitors to take a walk through Maastricht with a new free digital audio guide available in Dutch, English, French or German:
“Discover Maastricht with your PDA, Smartphone, MP3 Player or iPod. Watch the presentations and listen to audio clips in the unique places of the city. Determine your own [...]
New on Crossroads: Links to Language courses
July 3, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Interested in learning Dutch, English or other languages? Please have a look at our new page with links to language courses in the region.
The list of languages courses has been kindly provided by the Limburg Development Company LIOF.
Dutch MPs agree on embryo testing
July 3, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
An overwhelming majority of Dutch MPs have voted in favour of the compromise proposal on testing embryos for hereditary diseases. Earlier the issue caused a crisis in the Dutch cabinet when Deputy Health Minister Jet Bussemaker tried to expand the practice, only to be blocked by the smallest coalition party, the Christian Union.
Last week, the [...]
Dutch cabinet: compromise on embryo testing
June 25, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Sources in the Dutch government say the Cabinet has reached a compromise in the question of an expansion of embryo testing during in vitro fertilisation by the Maastricht University Medical Centre. A committee of medical experts will be set up which will make assessments on an individual basis.
The controversy started at the end of last [...]
Studying music in Maastricht
June 10, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Studying music in Maastricht, a video report by Europocket TV at Conservatorium Maastricht. Includes interviews with foreign students.
Source: Europocket TV, May 2008
Maastricht hospital disregards parliament’s call to withhold embryo tests
June 5, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
The Dutch parliament is due to convene an emergency meeting Thursday to debate whether Dutch hospitals may screen embryos resulting from IVF treatment for certain genetic diseases, reports said Wednesday.
After screening, only those embryos free of the gene that may later cause a person to develop the disease will be implanted in the uterus.
The emergency [...]
Christian Union leader furious with Maastricht hospital
June 5, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Deputy Prime Minister André Rouvoet is furious at the decision by Maastricht Academic Hospital to continue screening embryos for the gene that causes breast cancer. In the television programme Nova, the Christian Union leader said that the matter should first be debated in the cabinet.
The Christian Democrats are also annoyed with the hospital’s decision. Christian [...]
Regional bus drivers go on indefinite strike
June 3, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Bus services over much of the country were paralysed on Monday as regional bus drivers continued their indefinite strike in support of a 3.5% pay claim.
The strike began on Sunday and means that no Arriva, Veolia and Connexxion buses are operating in most parts of the country. Services are continuing in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The [...]
Pinkpop festival draws 90,000 visitors
June 3, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
This year’s Pinkpop festival drew more than 90,000 visitors from Friday until Sunday where they attended numerous performances at the festival grounds in the Limburg town of Landgraaf.
Many of them stayed more than one day; around 42,000 people spent the night at one of the campgrounds in the area. Sunday included performances by Kate [...]
Oud-Rekem is “most beautiful” village in Flanders
May 29, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Oud-Rekem has been chosen ‘Most beautiful village in Flanders’. The Limburg village won a competition that aims to promote ‘the hidden secrets of the Flemish countryside’.
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Source: Redactie.be, 29 May 2008
Forty digital flash cameras along Belgian motorways
May 28, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Flemish Ministers of Mobility Kathleen Van Brempt and Public Works Hilde Crevits announced Tuesday the 162 spots where flash poles with digital cameras will be erected during 2008 and 2009.
Forty digital flash cameras will be placed along motorways. The flash limit will be 129 km/h, with a technical fault margin of 6 percent above the [...]
Alliance between Philips, Maastricht UMC+ and University Clinic Aachen
May 28, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
The Maastricht University Medical Centre (UMC+), University Medical Center Aachen (UKA) and Royal Philips Electronics N.V. announced that they are to set up a strategic partnership, the aim of which is to pool their knowledge, expertise and experience in the field of healthcare.
The planned cooperation will make it possible for new scientific findings to [...]
Major Bronze Age settlement found
May 26, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
The biggest Bronze Age settlement ever found in the Netherlands has been uncovered during road works at the A50/A58 junction north of Eindhoven, news agency ANP reports on Friday.
Almost four hectares have already been excavated, revealing the remains of 19 farms and over 50 ancillary buildings, ANP reports.
Archaeologists say the regulated distances between the farms [...]
Fed up with colleges at home, Germans go to Maastricht to study
May 26, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Some 70,000 German students study abroad each year, but most of them don’t go far. Last year, 14,000 went just next door, to the Netherlands, with Maastricht the destination of choice.
Read the article: Deutsche Welle, 25 May 2008
US soldiers commemorated on Dutch Memorial Day
Memorial Day has been held at the military graveyard Margraten in Limburg. The event commemorates US soldiers who died in the Second World War.
Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen gave a speech on behalf of the Dutch government. Defence Minister Eimert van Middlekoop, Education Minister Ronald Plasterk and Deputy Minister for European Affairs Frans Timmermans also attended [...]
Dutch-led team finds dinosaur tracks on Arabian Peninsula
May 23, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
A Dutch-led team of scientists has announced the discovery of the first dinosaur tracks to be found on the Arabian Peninsula.
Led by Anne Schulp of the Maastricht Museum of Natural History in the Netherlands, the researchers found evidence of a large ornithopod dinosaur, as well as a herd of 11 sauropods that apparently had been [...]
Foreign students and expats give their views on Maastricht
May 19, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
The inhabitants of Maastricht are often very proud of their city, but what is it like for a foreign student or expatriate to live here? For her graduation traineeship, German Masters student of Media Culture, Alexandra Rosenbach, interviewed a number of them, including an American and a French student, and a Spanish doctor on their [...]
Demonstration for Dutch human rights activist
May 19, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Amnesty International held a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in The Hague on Friday, protesting against the imprisonment of Abdullah al-Mansouri, a Dutch human rights activist originally from Iran. Politicians from the Labour, Green Left and Socialist parties also took part in the demonstration.
Mr al-Mansouri has lived in the Netherlands since 1988 and was an [...]
New cross-border crime bureau in Limburg
May 12, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
The authorities in Limburg, the southernmost province of the Netherlands, are going to work more closely with Belgium and Germany to tackle cross-border crime more effectively.
In a bid to improve co-operation, police, justice and state officials from all three countries will share a single office building in the Dutch city of Heerlen. They will be [...]
Maastricht Mayor to be honored by University of Central Missouri
May 7, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Two honorary degrees, the Distinguished Service Award, and the Outstanding Recent Alumni Award, will be presented during 2008 spring commencement exercises at the University of Central Missouri.
More than 1,000 new graduates are eligible to participate in the ceremonies, beginning with the graduate commencement at 7 p.m. Friday, May 9, and followed by undergraduate ceremonies [...]
Maharishi group faces building fines
May 7, 2008 by Sueli · 2 Comments
The Maharishi commune in the Limburg village of Vlodrop faces fines of up to €10,000 a time for breaking building regulations on its estate, NOS tv reports on Tuesday.
The former convent occupied by the transcendental meditation group was raided by building inspectors last autumn, who found 13 infringements.
Now the council says 164 flagpoles [...]
Amsterdam Airlines to fly five times weekly from Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA)
April 30, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
From June, Amsterdam Airlines is to fly five times weekly from Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA). The new Dutch airline is working in partnership with tour operator Turjet, a Turkey specialist.
Passengers leaving from Dutch soil will from 1 July pay a new air tax. Due to this measure, a number of airline companies are moving to [...]
Urban journal: Postcard from Maastricht
April 29, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Beyond Milan and Eindhoven, the author discovers an emerging design center in Europe.
Maastricht, Netherlands, a city of 120,000 people nestled between Belgium and Germany, refutes the norms of Dutch identity. The oldest city in the Netherlands, its postcard scenery is more Middle Ages than Vermeer. And while Holland is flat, waterlogged, and canal-lined, Maastricht boasts [...]
Dutch plan to shift coffeeshops worries neighbors
April 21, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Sitting among the mellow smokers in a coffeeshop in Maastricht it is easy to forget that a plan to relocate half of the cannabis-selling outlets to the city limits has aroused fury.
The southern Dutch city has been trying for five years to push seven shops to three new “coffee corners” at its northern, western and [...]
Live in Amsterdam, dine in Maastricht
April 17, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Amsterdam is the most attractive Dutch city to live in, according to a new comparison of the 50 biggest local authorities in the Netherlands.
The capital is followed by Utrecht and Haarlem, while Heerlen is bottom of the list.
The ranking, published as an ‘atlas’, also shows Maastricht is by far the best when it comes to [...]
Internship Opportunity at ASEF
April 16, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Internship Opportunity at ASEF
Department: Public Affairs
Type of Position: Internship (6 months)
Date of Commencement 1 July 2008
Deadline of Application: 30 April 2008
Brief
The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) seeks to promote better mutual understanding and closer co-operation between the people of Asia and Europe through greater intellectual, cultural, and people-to-people exchanges. These exchanges include conferences, lecture tours, workshops, seminars [...]
Dutch EU officials go back to their high schools
April 14, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
Some 350 Dutch civil servants who work for the European institutions and MEPs are returning to their former secondary schools for a day to talk with school pupils about their work and the European Union.
The operation, ‘EU: Back to School’, will see Dutch EU employees deliver guest lessons to around 11,000 schoolchildren today (14 April) [...]
New website: Castles of the Meuse valley
April 13, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
The provinces of Liège, Namur, Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg have decided to cooperate in a joint effort to better promote the castles located in the valley of the river Meuse.
The site appeals to history- and heritage enthusiasts, and to all who are visiting the « Euregio » for one or several days. More than [...]
Maastricht sends the jobless to reincarnation therapy
April 13, 2008 by Sueli · Leave a Comment
The municipality of Maastricht has pressurised unemployed people to follow reincarnation therapy. Uncooperative welfare recipients were told that their attitude could have consequences for their allowance, local newspaper De Limburger reported Friday.
The Social Services, which grants allowances and attempts to get recipients back to work, urged at least one unemployed resident of Maastricht to accept [...]
