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24 April 2023
The German-French-Swiss INFOBEST PALMRAIN has provided free bilingual information, mediation and advice to citizens, associations, companies, public authorities and political actors on a wide range of cross-border issues for 30 years. The organisation was founded on 1 July 1993. The trinational institution celebrated its 30th anniversary on 21 April in the former customs station at … Read more » “INFOBEST Palmrain Thirty Years”
10 April 2023
In 1930, Russian composer, pianist and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff bought a plot of land in the municipality of Hertenstein, right on Lake Lucerne in Canton Lucerne. He built the Villa Senar on this site. Senar is an abbreviation of SErgei, his wife Natalie Satina (1877-1951) and Rachmaninoff. Rachmaninoff commissioned two architects to build the Villa … Read more » “Villa Senar of Rachmaninoff”
3 April 2023
The president of the Collectivité européenne d’Alsace (CeA), Frédéric Bierry, and president of the government of the Basel-Stadt canton, Beat Jans, signed a letter of intent last March to intensify cross-border cooperation and relations between the two regions. The agreement covers European policy, climate and energy, healthcare, urban development, infrastructure and mobility, bilingualism, and regional … Read more » “Upper Rhine Region Cooperation”
