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The Lions Club Maastricht Mondial: Charity and International socialising

Posted Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

May Fair 2007, Lions Club Maastricht Mondial

The annual May Fair of the Lions Club Maastricht Mondial is just around the corner. This year, on 25 May, expatriates living and working in South Limburg and their families will be invited to practise their skiing talents at the SnowWorld indoor winter sports resort in Landgraaf. Peter van Dongen Torman, who has been organising the event for the past five years, meets with Crossroads’ writer Sina Spohr at a café by the Meuse river to tell her more about the club and the fair. [continued…]

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International organisation: Being in control at Eurocontrol

Posted Monday, June 19th, 2006

Air traffic controller Azahar Baeriswyl at work at Eurocontrol, Photograph: Monique Geuijen

With 1.4 million flights a year Eurocontrol’s Upper Area Control Centre (UAC) at Maastricht Aachen Airport is the second busiest Air Traffic Control Centre in Europe, after London. Its 250 air traffic controllers supervise the sky of Belgium, north-west Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Day and night. A role model in Europe while new legislation for the “Single European Sky” is coming up. [continued…]

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International organisations: Bringing the European Union - and Turkey - closer to Maastricht residents

Posted Thursday, June 15th, 2006

Turkije Dichtbij, Photograph: Centre Céramique, Maastricht

Ordinary citizens often view the European Institutions in Brussels as an inaccessible law-issuing bureaucratic monster. Ever since its foundation, the European Union has been lacking a tool to connect with its citizens. Because of the increasing competencies of the European Institutions, the need for such a tool grows by the day. European citizens ask to be informed and want to feel recognised.

To satisfy this need, the European Commission has created information relays, called Europe Direct, throughout the EU member states. Some nations only have two or three information points, but the Netherlands counts 13 of them, spread among each of its 12 provinces. [continued…]

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Proselytising the Euregio: Life sciences initiative spreads the collaboration message

Posted Saturday, July 16th, 2005

The Heartbeat of Life Sciences in Europe initiative was formed on the conviction that if the Euregio is going to impact Europe, businesses and research institutions must come together and operate as cohesive cluster.
Three universities of Maastricht, Aachen, and Liège along with several regional development agencies support the project because it aims to attract […]

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Euregio: a fruitful cooperation

Posted Monday, March 15th, 2004

A Belgian student at an English-language programme in the Netherlands. A Dutch patient having knee surgery in Germany without his insurer even blinking an eye. A German national, working in the Netherlands, who can exact the same pension as her counterparts in Germany. Impossible? Not if you live in Euregio Maas-Rhine.
From tentative beginnings in […]

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