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Visitors to Austria will soon be able to bunk in the von Trapp family at their villa in Salzburg.
The famous villa best known as the backdrop of the 1965 film, The Sound of Music, opens as a hotel in July. … Read More »
Two of the small states of the European Union, Cyprus and Malta, change their currencies over to Euros on 1.01.08.
The accession of the two countries to the “Euro area” — abandoning the Cypriot Pound and Maltese Lira — will mean that 15 of the 27 EU member countries will be using the joint currency. … Read More »
The drive against climate change provides the right setting to close off on the old economy that made Germany great – underground coal mines in the Ruhr feeding into heavy industry.
(By Lee Duffield and Nina Plonka). … Read More »
December saw high-level gatherings to make formal the new structure of the EU; take further Europe’s relations with African countries, and put up financial backing for the Palestinian authority as it faces the challenge from Hamas. … Read More »
The up-and-coming fashion capital of Europe has something new on display over the holiday season.
The European Parliament today (29.11.07) scrapped laws set to phase out the use of imperial measurements in Britain and Ireland.
Under the EU decision the countries can keep miles on road signs, and pubs may continue to serve draft beer and cider in pint mugs.
Pint-sized milk bottles will also be retained as will the Troy ounce for weighing precious metals — and imperial measurements may legally be displayed alongside their metric counterparts. … Read More »
Prospects for the Rudd Labor government elected on 24.11.07.
Labor’s trade spokesman, Simon Crean, last month (3.10.07) foreshadowed a renewed push by Australia in international commerce, both as an export drive and support, still, for the level playing field – with a new focus on European options.