Archive for: 2018

182019 will see a host of hot new attractions set to open across Denmark with high flying Copenhill and Camp Adventure taking guests to new heights. It’s the last chance to see Rubjerg Knude lighthouse before it’s relocated and in Copenhagen there’s a choice of exciting new dining options plus the opening of the...

The European Commission has adopted a decision rendering legally binding commitments offered by German grid operator TenneT to significantly increase cross-border flows of electricity between Denmark and Germany. TenneT will ensure that a specific guaranteed capacity is available at all times. Commissioner...

American and British tourists in particular are wild about Copenhagen in the Christmas season. They come to experience “the top city in the world”, explains Tivoli. Tourists are flocking to Copenhagen during the Christmas season. The number of British and American tourists alone who visit Copenhagen in December has...

NIB and UAB Lidl Lietuva have signed a EUR 50 million loan agreement with a maturity of ten years to finance the expansion of Lidl’s store network in Lithuania 2017–2019. Lidl entered the Lithuanian grocery market in June 2016. At year end 2017, Lidl was operating 35 stores and one warehouse in the country and had a...

The parliamentarians of the Baltic Sea region want to initiate the establishment of a Baltic Sea Parliamentarians Youth Forum in order to promote political exchange between young people in the neighbouring states. They passed a resolution to this effect at the 27th annual meeting of the Baltic Sea Parliamentary...

Politics: Government forming in Latvia: Last week the conservative Janis Bordans was the first candidate for the post of head of government to fail in an attempt to form a coalition government of several parties to the right of the centre.Almost two months after the parliamentary elections in Latvia Aldis Gobzems of...

From 16 to 21 November young people from the Baltic Sea Region gathered at Akademiezentrum Sankelmark (Oeversee, Germany) for the 5th edition of the Baltic Sea Youth Dialogue to explore identities and to discuss questions on borders and culture, cooperation, minorities and more. During these days they got to know the...

Today the two ministers for foreign affairs of Poland and Denmark met in Brussels and signed the Agreement concerning the delimitation of maritime zones in the Baltic Sea. the press release of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reads as follows: “This is a historic agreement on the maritime boundary that...

On 17 November 2018, the research vessel ELISABETH MANN BORGESE departed from its home port of Rostock-Marienehe for its 200th voyage. The destination is the Gotland Basin in the central Baltic Sea. Here, the scientific team headed by oceanographer Lars Umlauf of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research...

Beginning of November, the Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft plan “Indicative Railway Infrastructure Development Plan 2018–2022” (Indicative Plan), submitted by the Ministry of Transport. On the basis of the Indicative Plan, the Ministry of Transport (MT) and the State Joint-Stock Company “Latvijas dzelzceļš”...