Women and Health

THE European Union of Women Marina Alta (EUWMA) is holding a series of meetings throughout the year looking at women within our own communities and learning about discrimination and the opportunities to gain equality.

The next, taking place in September, will be on Women and Health. Meanwhile during the summer there will be drop in events. Coffee at Claudia’s Restaurant/Café bar, Benitachell, on July 12 at 11am and Tea at Cafe Aroma, Les Fonts in Benitachell on

FLAMENCO fans are invited to an end ­ of ­ term performance and fundraiser by students at the Rebeca Carmona Flamenco School at the Teatro Auditorio Centro Social in Denia on Thursday July 6.

The show begins at 8.30pm (doors open at 8pm) and tickets cost €5 with all proceeds going to the TDAH +16 Denia association for people with attention deficit disorder.

August 24 at 4pm.

EUWMA meetings and events are open to everyone.

Other planned events include Tapas with EUWMA and discussions on the work that is ongoing in Spain, Europe and around the world on women’s issues (October) and International Day for the elimination of Violence against Women and Children (November).

For further information visit ‘European Union of Women Marina Alta’ on Facebook or email euwmarinaalta@gmail.

Before the show, the MonBloc percussion band will be performing outside the Centro Social.

Tickets can be purchased from the box office from 7pm on the day of the performance. For further information contact the Centro Social (Calle Calderón, 4) on 966 426 165.

Denmark

Too soon

A SURVEY for Danish cancer charity Kræftens Bekæmpelse found that approximately 30,000 people aged between 15 and 24 needed emergency hospital treatment over the last year after drinking alcohol. The charity said the figures were “shocking” and called for the minimum age for buying alcohol to be raised from 16.

Cry wolf

TWENTY-NINE wolves currently live in Denmark, and the number is believed to be growing. Aarhus University’s Environment and Energy department has issued guidelines on how to react on encountering wolves in the wild while taking care not to disturb their natural habitats or accustom the animals to humans.

The Netherlands

Ancient site

DUTCH archaeologists discovered a 4,000year-old burial site which was also a solar calendar on industrial land in Tiel. A burial mound with the remains of approximately 60 men, women and children, contained several passages where the sun would have shone directly on the longest and shortest days of the year.

Mother tongue

FOREIGN students will soon need to be able to speak Dutch, announced Education Minister Robbert Dijkgraafand, who is under pressure to tackle the dominance of English as a teaching medium. Most bachelor degree courses will require two-thirds of their content to be offered in Dutch, he told a parliamentary committee.

Belgium

Equal footing

BELGIUM was ranked 10th in the world for gender equality by the World Economic Forum’s 2023 Gender Gap Report, moving up four places since last year. Iceland remained at the top of the list, followed by Norway and Finland. Algeria, Chad and Afghanistan occupied the last three places.

War footing

BELGIUM officially joined the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) programme as an observer. Bringing Brussels onto the team would not change the current contracts signed between France, Germany and Spain, officials said, but would accelerate the operational partnership between the four nations’ air force.