Lifestyle
#DinnerInTheSky heads to Canal in Brussels
It’s one of the more novel culinary innovations of recent years in Brussels and elsewhere – eating while suspended 50 metres above the ground. For its 2019 edition, Dinner in the Sky will head to the Canal in Brussels, opposite the future Kanal Pompidou Museum. Since its launch in Brussels in 2006, Dinner in the […]
#PopeFrancis pleas for #EuropeanUnity, says ideologies threaten its existence
Aboard the Papal plane, Pope Francis made an impassioned plea for Europe to stick together and revive the ideals of its founders on Sunday, saying ideologies and fear-mongering politicians were threatening its very existence as a bloc, writes Philip Pullella. His comments to journalists on the plane while returning from a three-day trip to Romania, […]
Civil rights organization #NewEuropeans to receive #SchwarzkopfEuropeAward in Berlin
The civil rights organization New Europeans has won the prestigious Schwarzkopf Europe Award following an online poll of 18-to-35-year-olds across the European Union. New Europeans will receive the award at a ceremony in Berlin today (3 June) – the award will be presented by former European Parliament President Martin Schulz, himself a former recipient of the award. It is only […]
Al Jazeera under fire for again promoting #AntiSemitic content
Al Jazeera has been forced to delete a video which claimed that Jews “exploited the Holocaust” and that Israel was the genocide’s “greatest beneficiary”. The video, published by its online Arabic ‘AJ+’ channel, was removed only after it was met with outrage and disgust online, writes Louis Auge. The anti-Semitic content suggested that the Jewish […]
Cheaper phone calls among EU countries, a reality from today
From today, Wednesday 15 May, phone calls among EU member states will be cheaper thanks to the European Electronic Communication Code, adopted by the European Parliament in November last year. The new law, caps the price of calls at a maximum of 19 eurocents for both mobile and fixed calls (so-called ‘intra-EU calls’) and […]
Upset Hindus urge Amsterdam brewery to remove #LordGanesh image from beer and apologize
Upset Hindus are urging Amsterdam (Netherlands) based Friekens Brewery (Friekens Brouwerij) to apologize and not use Hindu deity Lord Ganesh’s image for its I.P.A (India Pale Ale) beer, calling it highly inappropriate. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada today, said that inappropriate usage of Hindu deities or concepts or symbols for commercial or […]
Jean-Claude Juncker awarded European Leader Of The Year Award
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker (pictured) was awarded the European Leader of the Year Award at the second European Leadership Awards ceremony on 6 May, organized by the European Business Summit in partnership with international news channel Euronews. For the past five years, Jean-Claude Juncker has been at the helm of the European Commission at […]
