Season’s Greetings
Looking back, 2022 was in many ways a return to normal. COVID-19 was slowly no longer a globalhealth emergency, so after two years of restrictions we were able to get together with family, friendsand colleagues, to travel, to organize joint activities and meetings in groups. Unfortunately, 2022 isalso the year that the world faced more […]
Season’s Greetings
Looking back 2021 will be remembered as a year full of challenges and marked by the pandemic. For many honorary consuls this meant more work than usual because all travel in and outside Europe remained problematic and people needed to be informed adequately and helped if necessary. Due to the restrictions and the lockdowns, we had […]
LITHUANIA AND BELARUS
Unsurprisingly, as an Honorary Consul of the Republic of Lithuania, I am very connected with the events in Belarus. As all Lithuanians do, as well as the populations of other Central European countries. This is because the history of Lithuania and Belarus have much in common. Not only in recent history, referring to the cruelties […]
A LOCKDOWN IN SPRING by Karin van Rooyen, Honorary Consul of Slovenia / May 2020
It was strange and rather ‘eerie’ when, on Thursday 12th March 2020, we all heard that we should stay home because the virus Covid-19 was among us.Stay home, stay safe became the new keywords. As the Honorary Consul for Slovenia I received a lot of messages of Slovenian citizens wondering if they were able to […]
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