Exciting days for airport employees, pack of cigarettes to 40 euros and more Limburg news
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Huge crowds at German gas pumps
Huge crowds at various German gas stations just across the Limburg border. The reason is the price reduction at the eastern neighbors. Petrol became 35 cents per liter cheaper there, diesel 17 cents. The reduction means that a liter of petrol in the Netherlands can be 50 cents more expensive. Despite the crowds, it never led to chaos. The gas stations could handle the many gas tourists very well.
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Pack of cigarettes will cost 40 euros in 2040
State Secretary Van Ooijen wants to gradually increase the price for a pack of cigarettes. Now a pack costs around 8 euros. The coalition has agreed to raise the price to 10 euros in 2025. After that, an annual fixed amount of about 2 euros is added. In 2040, a pack of cigarettes will cost no less than 40 euros. If the plan goes ahead, the Netherlands will become the frontrunner in Europe. Aim is a smoke-free generation by 2040.
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Bruce Springsteen ticket sales postponed
Tens of thousands of fans were ready at the computer at 10 o’clock on Wednesday morning to order tickets for the Bruce Springsteen concerts, next June in Amsterdam and Landgraaf. But things went wrong at Ticketmaster. Ticket sales have been postponed due to a malfunction. Norbert Frijns from Maastricht can be called a die-hard fan. He was already at 72 concerts of the Boss. Frijns had already managed to get tickets in advance for Landgraaf, Amsterdam, Dublin and Oslo, but still wanted tickets for Düsseldorf and Munich. So he was also ready on Wednesday morning…
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Excavating soil to give nature in Beesel more chance
Excavating soil polluted with nitrogen to give local nature a boost. This is currently happening at the Het Beesels Broek nature reserve. There the top layer is scraped off over a depth of about 30 centimeters. That land is not completely worthless, by the way, because it can be used to reinforce a dike a little further on.
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Exciting days for airport employees
The future of Maastricht Aachen Airport will be decided on Friday. There are still four options on the table, from maximum growth to even closing the airport in Beek, so tension is rising among the hundreds of employees.
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Another LK time trial after two years
After a two-year hiatus, the cyclists finally once again had a Limburg time trial championship on the program. 25 kilometers through De Maasduinen National Park in Well, with a winner at the end who went home almost without a title.
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