Gniezno cradle of Poland
By Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaDid you know that Gniezno was the first capital city of Poland followed by Cracow and then finally W...
Official opening of the Burgemeester van Grunsven square in Heerlen with a family festival
The new Burgemeester Van Grunsven square in Heerlen will be officially 'opened' on Thursday 15 September. The previously gray square h...
Onion Route in Estonia and the Old Believers
By Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaLake Peipsi/ Peipus is the largest trans-boundary lake in Europe, situated on the border between Estonia...
Happy 700th birthday Trakai!
By Beata Bruggeman-SekowskaTrakai was the home of the founder of Vilnius and had been the capital before Vilnius became one ( in 13...
Independence Day of the Republic of Moldova
New political conditions being the result of introducing the glasnost policy in 1986 to support perestroika by Mikh...
Warsaw Pact invasion on Czechoslovakia
Warsaw Pact invasion on Czechoslovakia
In the early hours of Aug. 21, 1968 the Warsaw Pact countries following the Soviet orders invade...
Poznań protests of 1956
By Beata Bruggeman-Sekowska66 years ago on the 28 June of 1956, at 6 a.m. Poznań (city in the western part of Poland) riots started...
Experience Downton Abbey in Dutch Limburg
By Beata Bruggeman-SękowskaOn the 12th of June 56 International Women from the International Women Club-South Limburg in the Ne...
Day of Freedom: Poland
During the parliamentary elections on the 4th of June 1989 Polish people voted on the Citizens’Committee, an opposition group around Le...
Lithuania Remembers
On June 14 Lithuania marks the Day of Mourning and Hope, and the Day of Occupation and Genocide. On June 14, 1941 at 3 o'clock in the m...