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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
The blind Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli is currently on a world tour to celebrate his 30th Anniversary as a professional singer. On Sunday May 31, he appeared in a sell-out concert at the Leiria Municipal Stadium to what is believed to be the largest audience to attend a classical concert in Portugal.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
In order to celebrate the 50th birthday of His Majesty King Frederick X of Denmark in 2018, it was decided to create a special fun run which would raise money for charity. Known as the Royal Run, it was a chance for the people of Copenhagen to see the king and queen in a relaxed atmosphere and although it was intended to take place only once, not only has it become an annual event, it has expanded to take in five different venues due to its popularity.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Norway is clearly very nervous about the intentions of the Russian Government and has announced that it will create 4,600 defence jobs in Northern Norway.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
With the need for Heads of States and Ministers to travel quickly and safely to various meetings in Europe, different governments have a different approach to how they get there. In the 1970s for example, the British Government believed it was a waste of resources to dedicate one or more RAF aircraft to be used by ministers and therefore used to charter aircraft on a one off basis via tender.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Poland is becoming a major force in production and export of a number of different goods, many of which could be described as luxury so may be influenced by the world economy. Already, Poland has become well-known for the quality of its Christmas Tree baubles and having knocked the cheaper Chinese export market is already the third largest exporter of baubles in Europe (after Netherlands and Germany) and fifth in the world.
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1 week ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Some 2,000 Finnish personnel as well as pilots from the Netherlands are taking part in an annual training event known as Baana which sees jet aircraft using a motorway as a landing strip. For a small country which borders Russia, Finland boasts a significant number of full time and reservists in its Armed Forces and now that it is a member of NATO is involving other nations in its training.
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2 weeks ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
As people live longer and in some countries birth rates drop, it has become apparent that many countries will have difficulty in funding pensions. The Danish Parliament voted on May 22 to increase its pension age to 70 in 2024 although the current age is 67 and is due to increase to 68 in 2030 and 69 in 2035. It has been government policy to review the pension age every five years and increase it by one year if average life expectancy keeps on rising.
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2 weeks ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
There is little doubt that Irish budget airline Ryanair is often in the news on a regular basis with the majority of coverage unfortunately being negative. This doesn’t seem to have hurt its ability to attract passengers and profits and is quite ruthless in dropping routes where difficulties are known to occur on a regular basis or if it considers that airport costs are too high.
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2 weeks ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
You can tell that the Summer is approaching with the appearance of watermelons in markets and supermarkets at sensible prices. Nowadays, the largest production of this sweet and tasty fruit comes from the Province of Almeria with around 635,000 tons being produced during the season, the bulk of which comes from greenhouses rather than being grown outside in order to supply the market with plenty of the oval fruit before any other producers.
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2 weeks ago | 
euroweeklynews.com | John Smith |JOhn Smith
Despite, or perhaps because of the avowed interest that Donald Trump has in Greenland, a new 30-year-permit to allow mining has been granted to a Danish Group with French connections. Greenland grants mining contract to European consortium which may be first of manyThe decision that Greenland Anorthosite Mining (GAM) would be given rights to extract Anorthosite (a white rock composed mainly of aluminium, micro silica, and calcium) was announced on Wednesday, May 21.
