Finland and Estonia to build a 100 km long undersea tunnel between their capitals
An important milestone for the proposed undersea tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn will soon be reached. Also known ...
A roundabout under the Atlantic Ocean? Faroe Islands just opened one!
Faroe Islands Eysturoy Tunnel roundabout A World-First Denmark’s Faroe Islands officially opened the Eysturoy Tunnel. Apart from being a long ...
European Hyperloop Network : Amsterdam – Frankfurt in 50 minutes with 7 stops in between?
Finally Hyperloop arrives in continental Europe. As a vision at least. The Netherlands-based technology company Hard Hyperloop proposes a hyperloop ...
Research: World War II ‘Hongerwinter’ is engraved into Dutch genes
The people who were in utero during the ‘Hongerwinter‘ are likely to suffer consequences during all their lives, says a ...
The Dutch have penetrated Russia’s Cyber Espionage Unit and turned it into a ‘Big Brother’ house
Prominent Dutch newspaper ‘de Volkskrant’ reveals in an article (in Dutch) that the Dutch Intelligence Service AIVD has managed ...
Genocide in your leadership & you can still keep your Sakharov Prize & Nobel Peace Prize
Myanmar’s Rohingya population is suffering a genocide. Even the high commissioner for human rights of an ever-diplomatic organization like ...
Air Pollution responsible for about 467 000 premature deaths in Europe
In a stark warning to EU officials, a new report by European Environment Agency (EEA) says, air pollution has ...
Germany wants EU to remove recycling targets, fueling speculations about its motives….
European Commission’s Circular Economy Package (CEP) sets the municipal waste recycling targets at 60% by 2025 and 65% by 2030 ...
Europe by Night: Views from the Space
Europe by Night – photo taken . Author unknown (NASA). NASA, USA’s space agency, regularly releases the pictures taken by ...
For now, it is their numbers exploding! – Nuclear Reactors Per Country
While the news about green and renewable energy take up the front pages on World’s media, some other way of ...
Coffee capsules: What is the problem?
The city of Hamburg in north Germany has banned the use of council money on the coffee capsules (they did ...
Film Club: Spotlight
Spotlight is the true story of how a Boston (USA) newspaper has investigated the widespread sexual abuse of children by ...
Renewable Energy Percentages in European Countries
Renewable energy is generally defined as energy that is collected from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, ...
Why does this toilet paper cost so much in Europe?
A person in The Netherlands gets 48.000 (forty eight thousand) euro from the Dutch government to distribute free toilet paper ...
A ball game for the 21st Century: Korfbal (or ‘Korfball’ if you are unsophisticated)
Korfbal (or “Korfball“ in its Anglicized form) is a ball sport which is gaining popularity in recent years. Probably because ...
“Guard from above”: Dutch police trains eagles to catch the drones
The use of drones increases exponentially. So does the the concerns regarding security, safety and privacy. In the Netherlands, there ...
Clash of Europe and USA on a European art: Opera
Opera is a European art form. There is no way around it. It has been invented in Europe and ...