Posts Tagged ‘Brussels’
Seabear goes Acoustic “Wolfboy” @ Köln, Germany / “Warm Blood” Live @ Botanique, Brussels
Friday, May 14th, 2010Eurocontrol: Some 500 flights blocked by Icelandic ash cloud
Monday, May 10th, 2010Brussels/Madrid – Volcanic ash from Iceland continued to affect air travel in Europe on Monday, with Eurocontrol predicting that some 500 flights would be cancelled.
Icelandic air travel dominated by local airlines; Iceland Express now …
Thursday, May 6th, 2010What? No volcano? Yeah for once we resisted the urge. New routes for this summer include Icelandair to Brussels and Trondheim while Iceland Express has a lengthier list of Birmingham, Milan Bergamo, Rotterdam and… Newark and Winnipeg starting in June.
Ben Frost “Híbakúsja” during Whale Watching Tour @ Brussels (2009)
Sunday, March 14th, 2010FM Belfast @ Home Plugged, Brussels 28. February 2010
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010More Mugison @ Icelandic Music Evening @ Rotonde, Botanique, Brussels 25. February 2010
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Helgi Hrafn Jónsson @ Icelandic Music Evening @ Rotonde, Botanique, Brussels 25. February 2010
Saturday, February 27th, 2010FM Belfast @ Icelandic Music Evening @ Rotonde, Botanique, Brussels on Thursday 25. February 2010
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Mugison @ Icelandic Music Evening @ Rotonde, Botanique, Brussels 25. February 2010
Saturday, February 27th, 2010Icelandic Music Evening with Helgi Hrafn Jónsson, Mugison & FM Belfast @ Botanique, Brussels 25. February 2010
Friday, February 26th, 2010Jonsi of Sigur Ros announces live solo tour in Europe and North America
Thursday, February 25th, 2010
In celebration of his debut solo album “go”, Jonsi of the Icelandic band Sigur Ros will begin his 2010 live tour on April 6th in Vancouver, Canada. Jonsi has teamed up with a British stage production company called 59 productions to create a unique live show for his 2010 “go” tour. The 59 productions team is creating a live stage show which will be a fusion of film, art installation, theatre performance and live concert.
Jonsi will bring his solo tour to Canada, North America, UK and Europe starting in Vancouver at the beginning of April. The tour will visit London, Brussels, Seattle, Philadelphia, Amsterdam, Paris, Boston and many more cities. Already, due to demand, a second concert is being held in London on May 27th at the London forum.
Jonsi’s debut solo album “go” will be released on April 5th in Europe and April 6th in the U.S.A. The album consists of nine songs, most of which are sung in English.
Pétur Ben Solo Live @ La Filature, Brussels 21. February 2010
Monday, February 22nd, 2010Pétur Ben in Concert @ La Filature, Brussels on Sunday 21. February 2010
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010Iceland PM’s secret Brussels meeting ‘was not a secret’
Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland’s Prime Minister, says that there was no secrecy surrounding her meeting on Thursday with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
The PM said that she talked with him at December’s climate summit in Copenhagen and at the time it was decided that they would meet in Brussels in February, and this was made public immediately – but it was not widely reported, she explained.
“I have just been talking with the foreign media now,” Sigurdardottir told Visir.is by telephone on Thursday immediately after the meeting – apparently disproving claims that she did not intend to speak to the press in Brussels.
Vigdis Hauksdottir, an MP for the Progressive Party, said in parliament that the Prime Minister had insulted the nation by being so secretive about her meeting with Barroso and EU expansion chief Olli Rehn. She added that only the leader of an Asian military dictatorship could realistically have expected to evade the media the way Sigurdardottir had hoped to.
The European Commission will decide on the 24th February whether Iceland is fit to continue its EU application further. Johanna Sigurdardottir said she feels positive after her meeting in Brussels that Iceland’s application will be accepted.
Icelandic Prime Minister on visit to Brussels
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir is set to visit Brussels this week, mostly to discuss the Icesave issue.
Reuters reported that Sigurdardottir will meet with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso tomorrow to go over Iceland’s interactions with EU members the Netherlands and the UK over Landsbanki’s failed Icesave accounts in the countries, which are now demanding repayment.
The Icelandic PM said she will also be discussing Iceland’s application for EU membership.
The news agency reports that talks in the Hague last week did not yield any clear progress on the possibility of renegotiation and on Tuesday, Iceland brushed off speculation that it was looking for a mediator to seek a solution.
Details of Sigurdardottir’s trip and who she plans to meet are being kept quiet. Tomorrow’s meeting with Barroso is only known about because it appeared on his website for a short while before being removed again, RUV reported.
British and Dutch NGOs Take Iceland’s Side in Icesave
Friday, January 29th, 2010
The British movement Jubilee, which fights for debt cancellation in developing countries, has taken Iceland’s cause in the Icesave debate, along with the Dutch movement group BothENDS. Members of these associations met in Brussels earlier this month.
Greenland powerless to prevent EU sealskin ban
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Greenland has once again been left without an international voice due to its membership of the Danish Kingdom, with the self-ruling administration unable to formally complain against the newly approved European Union ban on seal-product imports to the World Trade Organisation.
Greenland’s international affairs are still governed by Denmark and accordingly, as a member of the EU, Denmark is powerless to argue against EU rules at the WTO, because it is an EU member state, says the Greenland Foreign Ministry’s Christian Wennicke in a report by Sermitsiaq.
Not being an individual member of the EU means that Greenland now finds a repeat of the situation experienced during the recent whaling debate, where the self-rule state’s favourable policy towards expansion is subservient to Denmark’s agreement to the hard line approach issued by Brussels in relation to whaling.
The seal-product ban is set to take effect this August while both the Norwegian and Canadian governments have already lodged complaints last November with the World Trade Organisation over the EU proposal. No decision is expected to be made in relation to the complaints in the next two years.
The EU seal import ban can be partially circumvented through a stipulation allowing natively produced goods to be imported; but the Greenland administration argues that the ban will still impact negatively on all seal-related products, irrespective of origin.
Iceland’s Foreign Minister Meets EEA Council
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Iceland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Össur Skarphédinsson attended a meeting with the EEA Council in Brussels on Monday and meetings with the Committee of Members of Parliament of the EFTA Countries (CMP).
Concern over Iceland EU bid as public support tanks
Monday, November 9th, 2009Icelandic hot springs: Public opinion is not so hot on joining the EU any more LEIGH PHILLIPS 06.11.2009 @ 21:12 CET EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS – Iceland this week appointed its chief EU accession negotiator, but the country’s application application is already hitting the buffers domestically and Brussels fears that the Arctic nation may “pull a …