Ljubljana’s only jazz club is threatened with closure. The business paper Finance sees this as a further manifestation of the disappearance of urban culture in the Slovenian capital: “Ljubljana is being guided by a mediocrity that negates the talents and people with vision without which there could never have been any progress. In Ljubljana a [...]
The Mayor of Rome Gianni Alemanno, a member of the conservative ruling party, is relaxing the ban on the construction of new buildings that are higher than the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica. The left-liberal daily La Repubblica says this is the right diagnosis but the wrong medicine to cure the housing problems in the [...]
Delegates from 11 European cities met in Stockholm’ s Culture House for the second exchange of experience in the frame of Creative Metropoles project, an EU Interreg IV C project. The conference aimed to raise awareness about the impact and role of creative industries on economic development of cities and show best examples of [...]
In future Czech schools are to provide Roma children with language classes on their mother tongue, Romani. The measure is part of a government project meant to improve the low educational level of many Roma children. The conservative daily Lidové noviny puts the move on a par with the introduction of compulsory education by Holy [...]
The prestigious 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), from March 21 to April six, will pay special tribute to India’s late actor-director-producer-writer Guru Dutt, whom it calls “Bollywood Guru”. Festival will showcase his “Kaagaz Ke Phool” (1959, with Waheeda Rehman), “Mr. & Mrs. 55” (1955, with Madhubala), “Sahib Bibi aur Gulam” (1962, with Meena [...]
Students disrupted the EU education ministers’ celebrations of the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Bologna system on Thursday. The daily Die Presse says the harmonised European education system with its Bachelor degrees has its failings, but also its advantages: “The new ‘bachelor’ degree became a problem because the labour market has not accepted [...]
The F+U Academy of Languages in Heidelberg is one of the largest and most popular language schools in Germany offering classes not only in the leading world languages including Chinese and Japanese but also in a variety of other languages like Hungarian, Bulgarian and Danish, to mention a few. The school, which is situated in [...]
The shopping metropolis number one in the Rhine-Neckar region is undoubtedly Mannheim, the second largest city in the South German State of Baden-Württemberg. The “City of Squares” is full of department stores, small designer outlets, shoe shops and fashion boutiques offering the fanatical shopper all of his or her heart’s desires. As most shops and [...]
A Romanian author has called on the country’s Orthodox Church to canonise the national poet Mihai Eminescu. He is seen as the most important 19th-century Romanian poet. As an icon, he would not only be celebrated but would perhaps even be read again, says the daily G?ndul: “Since thousands of literary critics and teachers of [...]
According to Eda Kauba writing in the Hospod??sk? Noviny, a Czech and head of jury at the “Best of European Design and Advertising Awards” festival taking place in Barcelona, the most creative designers and copyrighters come from Germany: “The Germans are well organised, disciplined and have no sense of humour. … Anyone who believes that [...]
