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Mar 28, 2024 16:29

Finland / Tampere / Culture and Tourism / Politics and Reforms

Tampere will close its Lenin Museum this year

The building will then serve as the site for a new museum dedicated to Finnish-Russian relations

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Estonia / Tallinn / Politics and Reforms

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Belgium / Digital transformation / Mobility

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Apr 23, 2024 17:44

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Dutch independent supervisor concerned about traffic lights tracking people

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Slovakia / Energy efficiency / Green City

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Belgium / Digital transformation / Mobility

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Latvia / Riga / Mobility

Riga induces drivers to take public transport with ‘snow tickets’

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France / Paris / Public Spaces

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Italy / Culture and Tourism / Public Spaces

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Finland / Tampere / Culture and Tourism / Politics and Reforms

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Finland / Espoo / Education and Sport / Green City / Mobility

These child-friendly mobility devices are all the rage in Finnish cities

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France / Paris / Education and Sport

3 months before start of Olympic Games, the Seine not ready for swimmers

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Germany / Public Spaces / Welfare and Health

Smoking marijuana on German train stations to become illegal

The initial legislation didn’t include these public areas as restricted places for smoking pot

Apr 23, 2024 16:59

France / Innovation and Research / Welfare and Health

Speed radars in Nantes encourage walkers to run

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Florin Tiberiu Iacob Ridzi is Mayor of Petroșani. He was born on 18 February 1971.

He graduated from the Faculty of Legal Sciences in Alba Iulia. He has defended his Ph.D. in Engineering Science. He did his Master studies in Mining Machines and Modern Technical Equipment at Petroșani University and in Public Administration at Vasile Goldiș University, Arad.

Ridzi worked as an engineer at...

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