A Polish number one in the EU

Jerzy Buzek is the prospective president of the European parliament (EP). At the 14th July in the first round of voting 555 of the 736 Strasbourgian parliamentarians voted for Buzek. The only opponent Eva-Britt Svensson had been chanceless with 89 votes. Therefore Buzek is the first parliamentarian, of the new EU countries, elected into such a high EU-position.

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First official documentation of Lithuania in 1009

At the 6th July 2009 Lithuania celebrated its Millennium birthday: In 1009 the largest of the three Baltic countries first had been officially documented. Occasion was a bloody event, mentioned thousand years ago in the Chronics of Quedlinburg, a german imperial castle, as follows ...

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Baltic Sea becomes warmer

A warm June led to the upturn of the North and Baltic Sea’s temperatures

The German Federal Agency of Navigation and Hydrography (BSH), settled in Hamburg, recently announced its results of longterm temperature measurements of the North and Baltic Sea. Hence the BSH MARNET-Measuring station detected a reduced cooling during winter above longtime average, even of deeper water layers in the German bight and western Baltic Sea.

Therefore the „starting point“ for summer temperatures became higher, according to BSH. The German bight showed near-ground summer temperatures of in the average 2°C. Meanwhile MARNET detects temperatures around 13°C, whereas in the eighties and ninties it had been around 11°C.

Event tip

3rd – 4th September 2009: BSF annual meeting
On September 3rd 2009, a festive reception together with Chamber of Commerce and Industry will be held at the historic Hoghehus, Koberg 2, 23552 Lübeck, as a part of the annual meeting of the Baltic Sea Forum. Then on September 4th 2009, Björn Engholm will be lecturing on “Culture of the Baltic Sea Area” at 9.30 am at the “Bürgerschaftssaal” (first floor) of Lübeck’s town hall (Breite Straße 62). Mr. Engholm was a premier of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and has been member and supporter of the Baltic Sea Forum for many years. He will report on the different cultural developments in the Baltic Sea Area. Beforehand, Lübeck’s mayor Bernd Saxe will be welcoming the guests at the “Audienzsaal” of the town hall with a reception. There will be an opportunity to visit the “Lübecker Dräger-

werke”, a production centre for medical technical equipment, after the assembly of the BSF.
For all events of the annual meeting and the visit of the Drägerwerke, participants need to register with the BSF office via Markus Köhl, Phone +49.(0)40.556 14-615 or Fax +49.(0)421.23 49 57 or email at info(at)baltic-sea-forum.org.

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